On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Tim Lahey <tim.la...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Carl Witty <carl.wi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Would it be better to test the results numerically? (For instance, >> evaluate the integral returned and the desired result at 100 random >> points to high precision, and ensure that the relative error between >> the answers at each point is small.) > > > How can one do that with symbolic variables? Most of the test integrals > have symbolic constants (w.r.t the integration) so it isn't just the > integration > variable. I thought about numerical testing, but it isn't generally feasible.
Couldn't you just pick random values for all of the symbolic constants, as well? Carl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
