Hello,
I have no idea why this isn't working. It says "can't evaluate to boolean". Could you help me please? I'm really stuck.
You mean like this?
Maybe you forgot to define m?
Note that m MUST be defined, if not:
Which (version of) (which type of) Mathcad are you using?
Success!
Luc
In cases like this it often helps to tell Mathcad a little bit more about the variables used (like n being an integer or m being greater than 1, etc.). Unfortunately this does not really help much in your case:
It simply means that the symbolic core is not powerful enough to accomplish the task you are giving it.
As Luc has shown you can get a result for specific values of m - this is also true in Mathcad 15 (which I guess is the version you are using):
Luc uses Mathcad 11 which has Maple as symbolic core which normally outperforms the symbolic (muPad) in newer versions of Mathcad. Maybe he can give it a try using the appropriate assumptions.
Mathcad's symbolic core is not very powerful compared to software like Maple or Mathematica.
With version Prime 6, PTC has introduced a new symbolic core (probably for licensing reasons), which in many respects is still significantly less powerful than the old one, but can score particularly well in the case of your example:
