On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:36 PM, cesarnda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Actually this sum can't be done by Maxima, but Derive can do it (even
> an old version of derive). do you have an idea of how this problem is
> planning to be solved?

Is this the answer you were expecting?

(%i6) load(simplify_sum);
(%o6)
   /opt/sage/local/share/maxima/5.16.3/share/contrib/solve_rec/simplify_sum.mac
(%i7) simplify_sum(sum(1/(x*(x+1)),x,1,inf));
(%o7)                                  1

--Mike

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