Timeline for Why mpmath computes $\sum_{n=2}^\infty (-1)^n\log(n)=\log\left(\frac1 2 \sqrt{2} \sqrt{\pi}\right)$
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| May 16, 2022 at 23:54 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | @IosifPinelis that's fair. It was a little cheeky of me, but having the raw text there is useful in case people want to play with the example, and not have to type it out afresh based on a picture of the preformatted version (it wasn't clear to me how one would type some of that stuff!). Also, one can paste this into WolframAlpha, if no Mathematica is to hand. | |
| May 16, 2022 at 11:30 | history | edited | Iosif Pinelis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 16, 2022 at 11:29 | comment | added | Iosif Pinelis | @DavidRoberts : I think the shorter the answer is the better, provided that it contains all the necessary information, maybe with just a bit of redundancy for the ease of reading. There is also a concern about the esthetics. This raw text does not look pretty to a human eye. I think almost the entire point of the Mathematica interface was to make the code easily readable by humans. With all that said, as a compromise, I have left your edit, but indicated that it was your edit. | |
| May 16, 2022 at 11:16 | history | edited | Iosif Pinelis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 16, 2022 at 11:02 | history | edited | David Roberts♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added raw text back in, in addition to the picture
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| May 16, 2022 at 10:59 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | Why not both...? pixels are cheap | |
| May 16, 2022 at 10:30 | history | edited | Peter Taylor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
It's possible to have an image and still have limited compatibility with screen readers, copy-paste, searching, etc.
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| May 15, 2022 at 17:28 | comment | added | Iosif Pinelis | @LSpice : I would agree that such text is more readable by a computer, but hardly by a human. Also, I have now given (in another answer) a possible way for Mathematica's reasoning. | |
| May 15, 2022 at 14:53 | comment | added | LSpice | It's funny—I find text more readable than an image! But of course it's your answer, and I apologise for an unwelcome edit. \\ Your detail in the beginning seems more like an answer, but the original Mathematica code—for someone like me only familiar with Mathematica code to get answers, not to extract the mathematical details—just to be showing that Mathematica produces the same answer; I was not able to extract from it the explanation that you have now added in. | |
| May 15, 2022 at 14:51 | comment | added | Iosif Pinelis | @LSpice : I think readability is more important here, so I did roll it back. I do not see why this may be not an answer. Do you care to explain your comment? In the beginning, I have now added a detail. | |
| May 15, 2022 at 14:49 | history | edited | Iosif Pinelis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 15, 2022 at 14:45 | history | rollback | Iosif Pinelis |
Rollback to Revision 1
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| May 15, 2022 at 14:44 | comment | added | LSpice | I edited in a text equivalent of the Mathematica code. It's a bit less pretty, but hopefully more useful for anyone searching or C&Ping. Please feel free to rollback if the edit was unwelcome. But isn't this a comment, rather than an answer? | |
| May 15, 2022 at 14:43 | history | edited | LSpice | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Mathematica as text
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| May 15, 2022 at 14:33 | history | answered | Iosif Pinelis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |