[sage-support] Re: wrong or nonexistent results for various infinite sums

2014-07-08 Thread kcrisman
> > > sum(x^(3*k)/factorial(2*k),k,0,oo) > > I understand that Sage has limited exploitation of Maxima's hypergeometric > functionality, and I suspect this is the main issue. Are there any > conceivable workarounds? > > This actually works out of the box in the latest development release, proba

[sage-support] Re: wrong or nonexistent results for various infinite sums

2014-04-24 Thread kcrisman
> > > > which, to me, is a very useful answer. But other sums are simply wrong. > > > > k = var('k') > > sum(x^(2*k)/factorial(2*k),k,0,oo) > > I'm working with Maxima 5.33.0. I get > > simplify_sum ('sum(x^(2*k)/factorial(2*k),k,0,inf)); > => sqrt(%pi)*bessel_i(-1/2,x)*sqrt(x)/sqrt(2)

[sage-support] Re: wrong or nonexistent results for various infinite sums

2014-04-23 Thread Robert Dodier
On 2014-04-23, Karl S wrote: > #taylor coefficient for erf(3x) > a_erf(m) = (3)^(2*m+1)*(-1)^m*2/sqrt(pi)/(factorial(m)*(2*m+1)) > > #coefficient of chebyshev polynomial > c_erf_cheb(p) = sum(a_erf(m)*binomial(2*m+1,m-p)*4^-m,m,p,oo).simplify_full > () > > Here the function c_erf_cheb(p) ends up

[sage-support] Re: wrong or nonexistent results for various infinite sums

2014-04-23 Thread Nils Bruin
On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 2:40:46 PM UTC-7, Karl S wrote: > > > I understand that Sage has limited exploitation of Maxima's hypergeometric > functionality, and I suspect this is the main issue. Are there any > conceivable workarounds? > > http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/2516 should basically

[sage-support] Re: wrong or nonexistent results for various infinite sums

2014-04-23 Thread kcrisman
> > But other sums are simply wrong. > > k = var('k') > sum(x^(2*k)/factorial(2*k),k,0,oo) > > gives > > -1/4*sqrt(2)*sqrt(pi)*x^(3/2) > > but the answer should be sinh(x). > > Hmm. That shouldn't be happening, though I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't turn out as easy as that. (%i1) load(si