On Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 3:33:59 PM UTC-7, saad khalid wrote:
>
> I guess my real question is, what exactly is the point of the Sage version 
> of the sum? Why don't we just use the python sum by default? Are there any 
> benefits to Sage's version? The python version seems to run faster as well. 
>

It can do things like this:

sage: sum(1/x^2,x,1,oo)
1/6*pi^2
 
People expect that computer algebra systems do that. Python's sum doesn't

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