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 Author Comment/Response Bill 07/03/12 6:03pm Hi all, I'm working heavily with symbolic computation, because otherwise for the problem I'm working on, the math would be entirely unmanageable. A problem that I've encountered (and can't seem to figure out) is that I need to perform something like this... \sum _{n=0}^{\text{nmax}} (x-2) x f(n,x) where the desired output corresponds to... 5 (\text{nmax}+1)-2 x f(n,x). But the actual output given by Mathematica is \sum _{n=0}^{\text{nmax}} (x-2) x f(n,x). In other words, the ReplaceAll command doesn't do anything. It doesn't seem to recognize that $x^2 f(n,x)$ is present in the sum. This is incredibly important for me to be able to continue, so I'd really appreciate if anyone knows what the problem is, or has a possible solution. I appreciate your time. Thanks, Bill URL: ,

 Subject (listing for 'ReplaceAll applied to symbolic series') Author Date Posted ReplaceAll applied to symbolic series Bill 07/03/12 6:03pm Re: ReplaceAll applied to symbolic series yehuda 07/05/12 03:41am Re: ReplaceAll applied to symbolic series Bill Simpson 07/05/12 12:15pm Re: ReplaceAll applied to symbolic series Michael 07/05/12 3:00pm
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