Re: Hypergeometric1F1 polynomial
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- Subject: [mg91448] Re: Hypergeometric1F1 polynomial
- From: "Alec Mihailovs" <alec at mihailovs.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:11:53 -0400 (EDT)
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> The polynomial form you are expecting (see In[1]) can be obtained by > taking the series expansion about x == 0 to the order n (see In[2]). Well, I can obtain it even without series expansion. For example, as In[3]:= Hypergeometric1F1[-1, -2, 2 x] Out[3]= 1 + x The problem is that the answers given by Mathematica to the Sum problem, are not the same - they are not polynomials, with the series expansion, or without. Alec