Talk:Power Sum

no it shouldnt be a redirect to Newton's identities because a power sum refers to the sum where the exponent or the variable which is raised to a certain power changes according to the sum. In this case, i stated the equation when the variable changes but the power stays the same.


 * Hi. I redirected this to Newton's identities because the article Power sum (lower-case "s") redirects to there.  Therefore I assumed this must be the same thing.  If you want to write an article about this, I think it should be at power sum because that's standard capitalisation on Wikipedia with this page (Power Sum) as a redirect to there.  You also need to make this an encyclopaedia article with sources.  Perhaps you could add to Newton's identities?  Best wishes, No Retreat No Surrender 15:01, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

The problem is that the Newton's identities I dont even understand and what I have posted seems to be what the term "Power Sum" refers to. Besides, my way is simpler for anyone to follow, and if u dont believe me look at http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PowerSum.html. The equation presented refers to the second case shown on the MathWorld website.


 * Perhaps you could ask someone at WikiProject Mathematics for advice? All I'm certain of (I'm not an expert here) is that the current set of articles isn't satisfactory.  No Retreat No Surrender 15:12, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree. The Newton's Identities page is too complicated for most people and my entry goes some of the way to making it simpler.


 * I'm not sure whether it does make things simpler. I certainly don't understand it any more!  I think it's very likely that the page should be a redirect -- if only to the power sum article with an article there.  I've emailed an experienced user to ask for help.  No Retreat No Surrender 00:15, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

the power sum page really needs to be something on its own, not a redirect to Newton's Identities.DeathIsMercy 16:22, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

i stripped out my own general equation and put in those three formulas which is what most people only really need.

I think it might be best to merge this articke with faulhaber's formula. Currently "power sum" leads to an disambiguation page referring newton's identities and faulhaber's formula while "Power Sum" leads to this page. I think such behaviour is a bad idea - for now i've just added a link to Faulhaber's formula on this page, but ideally both search terms should yield the disambiguation page and this article should be merged with the Faulhaber's formula as they cover the same topic. --84.174.209.126 21:15, 18 February 2007 (UTC)