Subject: | Exponentiation Error |
See below for script showing error in exponentiation.
After the __END__ is output from the script and output from
perl -V.
Thank you,
Mike
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Math::Algebra::Symbols;
use warnings;
use strict;
print "Math::Algebra::Symbols version :",$Math::Algebra::Symbols::VERSION,"\n";
my ($b,$f,$s) = symbols( qw/b f s/ );
my $z =$b + $f + $s;
print $z, "\n";
for my $i (1..20){
print $i,"] ",$z**$i,"\n";
}
__END__
result of running above:
Math::Algebra::Symbols version :1.17
$b+$f+$s
1] $b+$f+$s
2] 2*$b*$f+2*$b*$s+$f*$s+$s*$f+$b**2+$f**2+$s**2
Can't call method "c" on an undefined value at C:/opt/Perl/site/lib/Math/Algebra/SymbolsSum.pm line
95.
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my perl:
[20:08:56.81]:perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 3) configuration:
Platform:
osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
uname=''
config_args='undef'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT
-DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
-DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX',
optimize='-MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1',
cppflags='-DWIN32'
ccversion='', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='__int64', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:ref,icf
-libpath:"C:\opt\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86'
libpth=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\lib
libs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib
advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib uuid.lib
wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
perllibs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib
advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib uuid.lib
wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib
msvcrt.lib
libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl58.lib
gnulibc_version='undef'
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:ref,icf
-libpath:"C:\opt\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
Locally applied patches:
ActivePerl Build 809
22218 Remove the caveat about detached threads crashing on Windows
22201 Avoid threads+win32 crash by freeing Perl interpreter slightly later
22169 Display 'out of memeory' errors using low-level I/O
22159 Upgrade to Time::Hires 1.55
22120 Make 'Configure -Dcf_by=...' work
22051 Upgrade to Time::HiRes 1.54
21540 Fix backward-compatibility issues in if.pm
Built under MSWin32
Compiled at Feb 3 2004 00:28:51
%ENV:
PERL5LIB="c:/opt/mike/lib/;./"
@INC:
c:/opt/mike/lib/
./
C:/opt/Perl/lib
C:/opt/Perl/site/lib
.