#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-4.1.2
Component: calculus | Keywords:
Reviewer: Burcin Erocal, Mike Hansen | Author: Wilfried Huss
Merged: |
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Comment(by whuss):
Replying to [comment:10 kcrisman]:
> I installed this, but it does not seem to work as advertised. Namely,
> {{{
> sage: var('n,k')
> (k, n)
> sage: sum(binomial(n,k),k,0,n)
> simplify_sum(sum(binomial(n,k),k,0,n))
> }}}
> It does behave as desired if I go to Maxima and load(simplify_sum) etc.,
but that's not the same. Somehow it's staying symbolic for some reason.
This is off of 4.1.1 on Mac OSX.5.
It works for me on sage-4.1.1 on Linux. I don't have a Mac to check.
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