Created: Oct. 11, 2002. This version: Oct. 11, 2002 `` CLD: A Maple package to automatically conjecture and rigorously prove explicit evaluations for Hankel and Topelitz determinants that evaluate to super-nice expressions using Dodgson's rule Written by Doron Zeilberger, zeilberg@math.rutgers.edu It accompanies the article: "Liebe Opa Paul: Ich Bin Auch Ein Experimental Scientist" available from Zeilberger's website `` Please report bugs to zeilberg@math.rutgers.edu `` The most current version of this package and paper are available from http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/ For a list of the IMPORTANT procedures type ezra();, for help with a specific procedure, type ezra(procedure_name); For a list of ALL procedures, type, ezra1(); This is the Terse Version This does Ambdeberhan and Ekhad's determinant conjectured by Kuperberg and Propp EvalH(r!*(m-r)!,n,r,4); (n - 1) (-m - 3 + n) (n - 1 + r) (n - 3 - m + r) [-------------------------------------------------------, 2 (2 n - 3 - m + r) (2 n - 5 - m + r) (-4 + 2 n + r - m) (n - 1 + r) (n - 3 - m + r) (n - 1 + r) (n - 3 - m + r) - ------------------------------------, ---------------------------] (2 n - 3 - m + r) (-4 + 2 n + r - m) (r - 1) (2 n - 3 - m + r) It took, 36.959, seconds of CPU time This does MacMahon's determinant EvalT(1/(m+r)!,n,r,4); n - 1 1 m + r - 1 [-------------, -------------, -------------] m - 1 + r + n m - 1 + r + n m - 1 + r + n It took, .640, seconds of CPU time This does Hilbert's determinant 2 2 2 (n - 1) (n - 1 + r) (n - 1 + r) [-------------------------------------------, ----------------------------, 2 (2 n - 1 + r) (-2 + 2 n + r) (2 n - 1 + r) (2 n - 3 + r) (-2 + 2 n + r) 2 (n - 1 + r) ---------------------] (r - 1) (2 n - 1 + r) EvalH(1/(r+1),n,r,4); It took, .411, seconds of CPU time