On Sunday, February 26, 2012, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > maxima 5.25.1, at least for me, gets the right answer > .... > > load(simplify_sum); > simplify_sum(sum (binomial(n,k)*k^2, k, 2, n)); > > returns > > > ((n^2+n)*2^n-4*n)/4 >
That's good - thanks for checking... > > This raises an interesting point. If Sage were to get > GSOC approval to be a mentoring organization, would it > match mentors and students to fix bugs in Maxima? > If there were a solid proposal then *definitely* yes! And the same goes for any other component of Sage. - william > RJF > > > > On Feb 26, 11:56 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Sage-Devel, >> >> I wanted to raise the profile of #10682, since it's a bug in which >> Sage's sum command (which calls maxima) outputs a very wrong answer. >> >> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10682 >> >> William >> >> -- >> William Stein >> Professor of Mathematics >> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
