Re: Re: Re: Sum
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- From: DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 04:45:37 -0500 (EST)
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Yes, I see that now. Thanks!
Bobby
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 05:33:52 -0500 (EST), yehuda ben-shimol <bsyehuda at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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> yehuda
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> 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.
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>> Oops, I take that back. It would almost always be a bad idea, so I don't know why Evaluate isn't automatic.
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>> Bobby
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>> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:10:40 -0600, DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com> wrote:
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>> > 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:
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>> > x = Exp[-k]
>> > Sum[Evaluate@x, {k, 0, Infinity}]
>> >
>> > E^(-k)
>> > E/(-1 + E)
>> >
>> > Bobby
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>> > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 05:35:51 -0500 (EST), mjumbo <mjumbo at nm.ru> wrote:
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>> >> Can sombody explain me why
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>> >> Sum[Exp[- k], {k, 0, Infinity}]
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>> >> gives the correct result, while the following (imho equivalent) statements
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>> >> x = Exp[-k]
>> >> Sum[x, {k, 0, Infinity}]
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>> >> 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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- Re: Re: Sum
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