On 6/25/07, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 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.
In that case maybe the problematic example should be
reported as a bug.
Detlef, if you have time, maybe you can make a bug report.
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/bugs)
best
Robert