#12410: divergent alternating sum gives finite result
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       Reporter:  dkrenn                         |        Owner:  burcin
           Type:  defect                         |       Status:  new
       Priority:  trivial                        |    Milestone:  sage-6.3
      Component:  calculus                       |   Resolution:
       Keywords:  alternating sum divergent      |    Merged in:
  result                                         |    Reviewers:
        Authors:                                 |  Work issues:  add
Report Upstream:  Reported upstream. No          |  doctest
  feedback yet.                                  |       Commit:
         Branch:                                 |     Stopgaps:
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Changes (by pbruin):

 * priority:  major => trivial
 * work_issues:   => add doctest


Comment:

 It looks like the right error to me; since there is an invalid term in the
 series (1/0), an error saying "zero to negative power" sounds more
 reasonable to me than "divergent sum".

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