On Tuesday, 19 January 2016 17:22:52 UTC, kcrisman wrote: > > >> As Dima mentions, the relevant functionality is coming from Maxima in >> this case. Maxima does have a flag you can set to let it try to expand >> bessel functions into elementary functions, see >> http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/maxima_15.html#SEC80 >> It's not directly exposed in sage, but with some obscure code you can >> activate it: >> >> sage: maxima_calculus("besselexpand:true") >> true >> sage: sum(((-1)^n)*((x)^(2*n+1))/factorial(2*n+1),n,0,oo) >> sin(x) >> >> > > Thanks, Nils. As usual, the question becomes whether this should > "automagically" happen in Sage for certain simplifications... >
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