Can Mathematica suggest what a formula means? For example if I input
$$\sum_{i=0}^n i$$
can it infer that this is a sum of integer values from $0$ to $n$? Or if I enter $0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13$, can Mathematica tell me that these are Fibonacci numbers?
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FindSequenceFunction and FindGeneratingFunction will attempt to identify how the list was produced.
FindSequenceFunction[{1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55}, n]
Fibonacci[n]
FindSequenceFunction[{0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13}, n]
FindGeneratingFunction[{0, 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13}, n]
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$\begingroup$ No, I mean something like: if I will 'give' mathematica a sequence: 0,0,1,2,3,5,8,13 it will return info that this are Fibonacci numbers, if I will give: 0,1,2,3,4,5 it will return info that this are integer values etc. But not just 'read' what it see, be give me an more precise answer $\endgroup$– ZivaCommented Dec 17, 2013 at 0:23
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Yes, if you call the wolfram alpha api from inside mathematica then some of the returned data will be that sort of information.
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$\begingroup$ google gets it straight away too.. $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 17, 2013 at 0:20
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