Re: Re: Sum
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- Subject: [mg55276] Re: [mg55232] Re: [mg55175] Sum
- From: yehuda ben-shimol <bsyehuda at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 05:33:52 -0500 (EST)
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- Reply-to: yehuda ben-shimol <bsyehuda at gmail.com>
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As said before, the iterator of Sum is a LOCAL variable to the Sum
function as can be seen in the following example
Sum[(Print[i]; 1/i^2), {i, Infinity}]
and the functions prints
K$18
and then returns the result
Pi^2/6
K$18 is a local naming (as is used to in a Module[] for local
variables) so x must be evaluated with the local variables before the
summation takes place
yehuda
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 03:29:08 -0500 (EST), DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com> wrote:
> >> If the result weren't infinite, that would be a good idea.
>
> Oops, I take that back. It would almost always be a bad idea, so I don't know why Evaluate isn't automatic.
>
> Bobby
>
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:10:40 -0600, DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
> > Sum tried to simplify BEFORE substituting the value of x. If the result weren't infinite, that would be a good idea. But in this case, it's not. But there's a simple fix:
> >
> > x = Exp[-k]
> > Sum[Evaluate@x, {k, 0, Infinity}]
> >
> > E^(-k)
> > E/(-1 + E)
> >
> > Bobby
> >
> > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 05:35:51 -0500 (EST), mjumbo <mjumbo at nm.ru> wrote:
> >
> >> Can sombody explain me why
> >>
> >> Sum[Exp[- k], {k, 0, Infinity}]
> >>
> >> gives the correct result, while the following (imho equivalent) statements
> >>
> >> x = Exp[-k]
> >> Sum[x, {k, 0, Infinity}]
> >>
> >> don't? What should I do to make it work? It is rather vexing to copy/paste long expressions instead of using short placeholders like x.
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