No, not yet. There is some work at
https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/1879, though.

Aaron Meurer

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Pablo Puente <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> thanks for checking. Yes you are right a definite sum over k can not return
> an expression with k.
>
> That was my mistake I did not realized, that with R4 test, Wester wanted to
> check if Gosper algorithm for indefinite sums are supported:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosper's_algorithm#Definite_versus_indefinite_summation
>
> SymPy does not support indefinite sums, and that particular algorithm right?
>
> This is the macsyma test:
>
> (c15) /* Check whether the full Gosper algorithm is implemented
>    => 1/2^(n + 1) binomial(n, k - 1) */
> closedform(indefsum(binomial(n, k)/2^n - binomial(n + 1, k)/2^(n + 1), k));
> Time= 2690 msecs
> (- n + k - 1) binomial(n + 1, k)
> (d15)       - --------------------------------
>      n
>   2 2  (n + 1)
>
> (c16) factcomb(makefact(%));
> Time= 220 msecs
>       n!
> (d16)        ----------------
>      n
> 2 k! 2  (n - k)!
>
> I will change test_R4() in test_wester.py.
>
> Thanks,
> Pablo
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 4:11:35 AM UTC+2, Aaron Meurer wrote:
>>
>> I think your expected answer must be wrong, because it cannot contain
>> k, since it is the summation variable.
>>
>> I would check the various expressions (the unevaluated summation, the
>> result before combsimp, the result after combsimp, and the expected
>> result) numerically for various values of n. The results from the
>> unevaluated Sum should be considered to be the true values, since
>> those are just evaluated numerically.
>>
>> That will at least show which of Sum.doit, combsimp, and your expected
>> result are right and wrong.
>>
>> Aaron Meurer
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Pablo Puente <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> >
>> > Wester test case R4 sum(binomial(n, k)/2^n - binomial(n + 1, k)/2^(n +
>> > 1),
>> > k) should return  2**(-n-1)*binomial(n,k-1).
>> >
>> >
>> > Sympy is returning -2**(-n)/2
>> >
>> >
>> > I am making a mistake or do we have a bug here?
>> >
>> > n,k = symbols('n,k', integer=True, positive=True)
>> >
>> > sk = binomial(n, k)/(2**n) - binomial(n + 1, k)/(2**(n + 1))
>> >
>> > S = Sum(sk, (k,1,oo))
>> >
>> > T = S.doit()
>> >
>> > assert T.combsimp() == 2**(-n-1)*binomial(n,k-1) # returns -2**(-n)/2
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Pablo Puente
>> >
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