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We find that the number of uncondensed bosons is represented by an analytic function, which includes a series expansion of q-digamma functions in mathematics. One can utilize this analytic result to evaluate various thermodynamic functions of ideal bosons in 2D anisotropic harmonic traps. The first major discovery is that the internal energy of a finite number of ideal bosons is a monotonically increasing function of anisotropy parameter p. The second major discovery is that, when p\u22650.5, the changing with temperature of the heat capacity of a finite number of ideal bosons possesses the maximum value, which happens at critical temperature Tc. The third major discovery is that, when 0.1\u2264p&lt;0.5, the changing with temperature of the heat capacity of a finite number of ideal bosons possesses an inflection point, but when p&lt;0.1, the inflection point disappears. The fourth major discovery is that, in the thermodynamic limit, at Tc and when p\u22650.5, the heat capacity at constant number reveals a cusp singularity, which resembles the \u03bb-transition of liquid helium-4. 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