Maxima's simplify_sum function produces something similar looking: (%i4) load("simplify_sum"); (%o4) "/usr/share/maxima/5.45.1/share/solve_rec/simplify_sum.mac"
(%i5) sum(1/factorial(n^2), n, 1, inf), simpsum; (%o5) 'sum(1/(n^2)!,n,1,inf) (%i6) simplify_sum(%); 1/'product(n^2+%,%,1,2*n+1) non-rational term ratio to nusum 1/'product(n^2+%,%,1,2*n+1) non-rational term ratio to nusum (%o6) %f[1,4]([1],[1-%i,%i+1,1-sqrt(2)*%i,sqrt(2)*%i+1],1) -- Oscar On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 at 17:52, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It appears to come from Maxima, but I have trouble reproducing this in Maxima. > Perhaps it's a bug in the Maxima interface? > Is there a direct way to see how Maxima is called in this instance? > > Dima > > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 2:53 PM Georgi Guninski <ggunin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> There is discussion about this on mathoverlow [1]: >> >> The closed form of `sum(1/factorial(n**2),n,1,oo)` doesn't appear >> correct and it contradicts numerical computations, including verification >> with mpmath. >> >> Session: >> >> sage: import mpmath >> sage: su4=sum(1/factorial(n**2),n,1,oo);su4 >> hypergeometric((1,), (-I + 1, I + 1, -I*sqrt(2) + 1, I*sqrt(2) + 1), 1) >> sage: CC(su4) >> 1.17227289255719 - 7.88860905221012e-31*I >> sage: mpmath.hyper((1,), (-I + 1, I + 1, -I*sqrt(2) + 1, I*sqrt(2) + 1), 1) >> mpc(real='1.1722728925571919', imag='-6.9025329206838533e-31') >> sage: su5=sum(1/factorial(i**2) for i in range(1,100)) >> sage: CC(su5) >> 1.04166942239864 >> >> sage: mpmath.nsum(lambda n: 1/mpmath.gamma(1+n**2),[1,mpmath.inf]) >> mpf('1.0416694223986369') >> >> >> [1]: >> https://mathoverflow.net/questions/463964/factorial-series-jd-sum-n-1-infty-frac1nd-and-hypergeometric-fu >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-devel" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAGUWgD8FTWhurhrHbs5d_7DE0FL4f4bb_MCE6d7B%3DKZdsmC4Ew%40mail.gmail.com. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq2hSxdzoiaNvOLPCur3_AB1-mpPjsMFhdurTcUrz31T9Q%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAHVvXxTJNfBgjtjFCZJcd6rjizPVDn9bc7rhjS0FoTwd5tJ46g%40mail.gmail.com.