Re: binomial sum bug
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg82637] Re: binomial sum bug
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:33:13 -0400 (EDT)
On 10/25/07 at 6:06 AM, jack at realmode.com (Jack Kennedy) wrote:
>In: Sum[Binomial[5,2k],{k,0,5}]
>Out: 16
>In: Sum[Binomial[n,2k],{k,0,n}] /. n->5
>Out: -16
>What the?
>This has been addressed before [mg70486] about a year ago and a work
>around was posted but I have two questions:
>
>1. Was it declared a bug by Wolfrram, and 2. In general does
>Wolfram issue bug fixes, and specifically is there a
>patch for this problem?
>$Version = 5.1 for Microsoft Windows (October 25, 2004)
Given:
In[1]:= Sum[Binomial[5, 2 k], {k, 0, 5}]
Out[1]= 16
In[2]:= Sum[Binomial[n, 2 k], {k, 0, n}] /. n -> 5
Out[2]= 16
In[3]:= $Version
Out[3]= 6.0 for Mac OS X PowerPC (32-bit) (June 19, 2007)
It is clear it was a bug that has been corrected.
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