Subject: Why cannot Maxima calculate some simple sums
From: John Lapeyre
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 22:02:39 +0200
My mistake! That message was supposed to go to the user who asked about
it, not to the entire list!
In fact it might take a few hours of work to put 'Sum'
features in 'sum' (assuming those features were desired)
to avoid breaking something.) I didn't really want to try
to discuss that right now!
> > I've also noticed this. Will anything be done about it?
>
> I wrote a Mathematica-like Sum function that unifies a
> few things. Maybe some of it can be used in maxima.