Interesting. The 'feature' has been there since at least Mathcad 11 (although giving a slightly different result than M15). Similar thing happens with the product operator.
Stuart
Mathcad 15:
Mathcad 11:
Computer math is not commutative as we operate on a finite set of numbers in contrary to the infinite real numbers and because of rounding errors done by decimal-binary-decimal conversion (which could be avoided by using BDC arithmetic).
The second example using the symbolic evaluation is quite different. Don' think that it's a bug. Rather Mathcad is not going to give you all possible solutions. If n is undefined Mathcad does not know wheter its going to sum UP or a sum DOWN, so its defaults to UP and gives you that solution. Only the last example below seems to be a bug, but the assume modifier never was reliable anyway.
WE
Correction: Even the last exemple has its logic. As the default seems to be that the upper limit is greater than or equal to the lower limit, the modifier n>=1 can only mean that n=1. Tricky!
