Re: simplifying inside sum, Mathematica 5.1
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- Subject: [mg53737] Re: simplifying inside sum, Mathematica 5.1
- From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 05:04:02 -0500 (EST)
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Hi,
since 0^0 is indefined *and* i run over i=0,1,... Mathematica will not
simplify this expression. In other cases you may remove the HoldAll
attribut from Sum[] to force the evaluation or you can try
s = Sum[a[i]*x^i, {i, 0, Infinity}];
(s /. x -> 0) /. Verbatim[Sum][s_, iter__] :>
(Sum @@ {Simplify[s, Element[i, Integers] && i > 0],
iter})
clearly the assumption in the Simplify[] call contradicts
the bounds of the iterator.
Regards
Jens
"Richard Fateman" <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Sum[a[i]*x^i,{i,0,Infinity}]
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> %/. x->0
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> leaves 0^i inside the sum, unsimplified.
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> So does the sum from 1 to Inf.
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> The correct answers are presumably a[0] and 0.
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> Is there a way to get Mathematica to do this?
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> RJF
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