Subject: Why cannot Maxima calculate some simple sums
From: Edward A Romana
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:41:10 -0700
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You are correct these are examples of Maxima uniplemented infinite series solutions,
and they are also good candidates for implementation.
Ed
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At 05:13 AM 12/23/2009, ????????? wrote:
>I find Maxima interesting and useful ,but it seems that its infinite sum function is broken.
>When I type sum(1/k^2,k,1,inf),simpsum and enter ,it gives the correct answer %pi^2/6
>But when? I type sum(1/k!,k,1,inf),simpsum and enter,it does nothing ,just to return the expression,which is ridiculous since that series simply converges to %e
>And it cannot calculate even 1/(k(k+1))
>Is this a bug ,an unimplemented feature or I missed something necessary to calculate infinite series?
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