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I am having a problem with the Mathematica InverseSeries command.

Looking at the information page here, we have the following example;

InverseSeries[x^2 + 3 x^4 + O[x]^8]

With output $\sqrt{x}-\frac{3 x^{3/2}}{2}+\frac{63 x^{5/2}}{8}+O\left(x^{15/2}\right)$. This works fine for me. They then invert this expression again;

InverseSeries[%]

Which outputs $x^2+3 x^4+O(x)^8$, as one would expect. However when I run these commands I simply get;

InverseSeries[x^2+3x^4+O[x]^8]
Sqrt[x]-(3 x^(3/2))/2+(63 x^(5/2))/8+O[x]^(15/2)

InverseSeries[%]
InverseSeries[(x-(3 x^3)/2+(63 x^5)/8)+O[x]^28,x]^2

I don;t have a heap of experience with mathematica, but I have noticed similar behaviour when I have inputted expressions incorrectly. Here thoguh I am literally copy and pasting from the examples webpage.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

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    $\begingroup$ Works fine for me (Windows 10, Mathematica 11.3) - which version are you using? Also, did you try to restart Mathematica to see if it still happens then? $\endgroup$
    – Lukas Lang
    Commented Oct 6, 2019 at 12:40
  • $\begingroup$ I saw a similar problem with v12 on a Mac; however, when I quit the kernel and restarted, it worked as expected except that the order was different. That is, I end up with x^2 + 3x^4 + O[x]^7 $\endgroup$
    – Bob Hanlon
    Commented Oct 6, 2019 at 22:27
  • $\begingroup$ Im on Windows 10, Mathematica 11.1. I have tried restartign and quitting the kernel. I'm currently downloading version 12.0 to see if that helps. $\endgroup$
    – CoffeeCrow
    Commented Oct 6, 2019 at 22:55

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Updating to Mathematica 12.0 fixed this issue.

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