See https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/78.
Aaron Meurer On Jan 8, 2011, at 8:08 PM, Aaron S. Meurer wrote: > I have started changing sum() to summation() (I am leaving Sum alone). > > One thing that I noticed is that there is some Sum2 class that seems to be a > duplicate of Sum. Does anyone know what this is? > > Aaron Meurer > > On Jan 8, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Aaron S. Meurer wrote: > >> Should we also change Sum to Summation? >> >> Aaron Meurer >> >> On Jan 8, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Tim Lahey wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Aaron S. Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Well, I think the semantics of Python's sum and SymPy's sum do not >>>> overlap, despite what Ronan says, but now that I think about it, I agree >>>> with Brian. If Python changes the semantics or behavior of sum(), we >>>> would have to change ours accordingly (although, being a builtin, this >>>> seems unlikely). >>>> >>>> So I think we should change the name. Is summate the option everyone >>>> likes? I think I slightly prefer summation, even if it does break >>>> verb-noun parity, because it is the more common term used for the >>>> mathematical object. >>>> >>> >>> I prefer summation to summate. >>> >>> >>> Tim. >>> -- >>> Tim Lahey >>> PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering >>> University of Waterloo >>> http://about.me/tjlahey >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sy...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
