#3587: [with patch, needs work] calculus -- wrap maxima's symbolic summation
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Reporter: was | Owner: whuss
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.0.1
Component: calculus | Keywords:
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Comment(by burcin):
Many thanks for the patch, this was long overdue. A few comments after
reading your patch:
Your patch replicates the way integrate/integral works perfectly. Though,
as Mike wrote in comment:3, we should just call this `sum`. There is also
a discussion about naming here:
http://groups.google.com/group/sage-
devel/browse_thread/thread/bd4eb3b613c98030
I suggest putting a `sum()` function in `sage.misc.misc_c`, that calls
python's `sum()` or your function based on the type/number of the
arguments. Would you like to do this or should I?
Here are some suggested changes:
* rename all instances of the method to `sum` or `symbolic_sum`
* you should import your function before the doctests in `calculus.py` to
make sure you call the right function
* it would be good to add a comment to #6197 pointing to the comment you
have in `calculus.py`
* you could add your code for converting MMA output back to Sage to a
`_sage_()` method in `sage.interfaces.mathematica.MathematicaElement`, see
the `MagmaElement` class in `sage.interfaces.magma` for an example,
similarly for Maple output
* In the last lines of the docstring for
`sage.symbolic.expression.Expression.summation`, choosen -> chosen
In the long term, I would like to see `integral` and `sum` constructs as
subclasses of `sage.symbolic.function.SFunction`, instead of the current
thin wrappers around maxima functionality. I will take a look at the
feasibility of doing this over the weekend. I don't want to hold your
patch back for this though.
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