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Why does Solve work on a sum with 34 terms but not 35 terms?

Michael H.
Posted 11 years ago
POSTED BY: Michael H.
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Michael H.
Posted 11 years ago

Thanks!!
POSTED BY: Michael H.

This code works on my system:

With[{M = 35, n = 8, c = 1/2}, 
 Solve[Sum[(M! p^k (1 - p^(M - k)))/((M - k)! k!), {k, n + 1, M}] == 
   c, p, Reals]]
POSTED BY: Gianluca Gorni
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