Le samedi 20 février 2021 à 17:37:30 UTC+1, [email protected] a écrit :

> On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 11:10 AM Emmanuel Charpentier 
> <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > 
> > In 9.2.beta7, (our port of) Maxima seems to have an nice bug : inability 
> to evaluate (some) symbolic sums. Minimal illustration : 
> > 
> > ``` 
> > ;;; Loading #P"/usr/local/sage-9/local/lib/ecl/sb-bsd-sockets.fas" 
> > ;;; Loading #P"/usr/local/sage-9/local/lib/ecl/sockets.fas" 
> > Maxima 5.44.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net 
> > using Lisp ECL 20.4.24 
> > Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING. 
> > Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter. 
> > The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information. 
> > (%i1) display2d:false; 
> > 
> > (%o1) false 
> > (%i2) sum(i, i, 1, 7); 
> > 
> > (%o2) 28 
> > 
> > /* As expected */ 
> > 
> > (%i3) sum(i, i, 1, p); 
> > 
> > (%o3) 'sum(i,i,1,p) 
> > 
> > /*Huh ? */ 
>
> sum() is lazy by default, you need 
>
> (%i5) sum(i,i,1,p), simpsum; 
>
> (%o5) (p^2+p)/2 
>

My recollection of  `Maxima`'s  documentation was incorrect...

>
>
> HTH 
>

It did. Thank you very much !
 

> Dima 
>
> > 
> > (%i4) sum(i, i, 1, p), nouns; 
> > 
> > (%o4) 'sum(i,i,1,p) 
> > 
> > /* !!!! */ 
> > ``` 
> > 
> > Curiously, `sage` seems perfectly able to use Maxima's `sum` for its own 
> purposes : 
> > 
> > ``` 
> > sage: sum(i, i, 1, n) 
> > 1/2*n^2 + 1/2*n 
> > ``` 
> > 
> > Could you check this ? 
> > 
> > - On a standalone installation of Maxima 
> > 
> > - On previous versions of Sage ? 
> > 
> > 
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