Hi. Checking out sage, and it's amazing.  I'm a bit overwhelmed by its
size, though...  I intend to use it to handle some of the messy
algebraic manipulations while I work on combinatorics.  Can anyone
help with these questions:

1)  When I enter a sum in sage:

  > h = sum(h_m, m, 1, 2*n)/2*n # h_m is already defined in terms of m
and n

sage gives me an answer in closed algebraic form.  That's great.  But
I'd like to know how it simplified it.  Is there anyway to have Sage
"show it's work"?  That is, show the steps it took to rewrite my sum
into the closed form .

(As a beginner, I'm not sure if I'm using Sage right - so it's very
important for me to be able to verify what it does.)

2) Now, when I tell sage to display h, it displays it in simplified
form.  Great.  But I'd also like to be able to print out the original
definition - how can I do that?

In general, both of these questions relate to the same concern: Sage
is great; but I don't want to follow it blindly.  I'd like to be able
to query what I put in, what Sage converted it to, and how.



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