On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Martin RUBEY wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Barton Willis wrote:
>
> > I proposed a new Maxima function, call it pow, such that pow(x,0)
> > evaluates
> > to 1 for all real or complex numbers x. Such a function would be useful
> > inside summations, where we generally _do_ want 0^0 to evaluate to 1.
> >
> > Barton
>
> Great idea. I'm aware of the difficulties, hence I did *not* propose to
> set 0^0=1. After all, I want to be able to deal with 0^x too...
>
> In this light, sum(x^0,x,0,inf),x:0 giving 0 is probably correct. What I
sorry, that should have been
sum(x^i,i,0,inf),x:0;
> really want however is the constant term. Maybe sum should issue a
> warning?