On 6/25/07, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/25/07, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > No. The integrate routine should do these right. This is simply (well,
> > "simply") a limitation (verging on a bug) in integrate. I have no idea
> how
> > easy or hard this would be to fix.
...
> With more time available, additional heuristics could be applied.
The integrate routine surely handles the general case of sums already, there
is simply some glitch so that it is not handling this particular case.
Papering over the glitch by another layer of heuristics which duplicate the
work it is already supposed to be doing seems like a bad idea.
-s