{"id":1773,"date":"2007-12-29T13:56:57","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T20:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2007-12-29T13:56:57","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T20:56:57","slug":"is-this-a-mathematica-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/12\/29\/is-this-a-mathematica-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This a Mathematica Bug?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miguel Pais points to an interesting behavior of Mathematica, where he plots the function which is the square of the square root of x.  Now, if the domain of x is taken to be complex numbers, Mathematica&#8217;s behavior seems to me to be fine.  But can anyone explain this behavior<br \/>\nas anything other than a bug?<br \/>\n<b>Update:<\/b>  Oops.  That wasn&#8217;t the one I was trying to paste.  See what happens when I disconnect from the intertubes for a few days.  How about this one:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miguel Pais points to an interesting behavior of Mathematica, where he plots the function which is the square of the square root of x. Now, if the domain of x is taken to be complex numbers, Mathematica&#8217;s behavior seems to me to be fine. But can anyone explain this behavior as anything other than a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/12\/29\/is-this-a-mathematica-bug\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is This a Mathematica Bug?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-mathematics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}