Roberto Baginski <rbaginski@uol.com.br> writes:
>
> Surprisingly or not, old Maxima 5.5 (running on Windows) displays it
> correctly (see below).
>
> Maxima 5.5 Tue Dec 5 16:55:33 2000 (with enhancements by W. Schelter).
> Licensed under the GNU Public License (see file COPYING)
> (C1) powerseries(1/sqrt(1+x), x, 0);
>
> INF
> ==== I1
> \ x
> 2 > --------------------
> / 3
> ==== BETA(- - I1, I1 + 1)
> I1 = 0 2
> (D1) -----------------------------
> 3
Except that the result is wrong. As a matter of fact this is the
Taylor series of sqrt(1+x) at x=0...
Wolfgang
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