Sum ()

Summation (SymPy, WMA)


Sum[$f, \{i, i_{min}, i_{max}\}$]

evaluates the discrete sum of f with i ranging from $i_{min}$ to $i_{max}$.

Sum[$f, \{i, i_{max}\}$]

same as Sum[$f, \{i, 1, i_{max}\}$].

Sum[$f, \{i, i_{min}, i_{max}, di\}$]

i ranges from $i_{min}$ to $i_{max}$ in steps of di.

Sum[$f, \{i, i_{min}, i_{max}, \{j, j_{min}, j_{max}, ...$]

evaluates f as a multiple sum, with {$i, ...$}, {$j, ...$}, ... being in outermost-to-innermost order.

A sum that Gauss in elementary school was asked to do to kill time:

The symbolic form he used:

A Geometric series with a finite limit:

A Geometric series using Infinity:

Leibniz formula used in computing Pi:

A table of double sums to compute squares:

Computing Harmonic using a sum

Other symbolic sums:

A sum with Complex-number iteration values

Verify algebraic identities:

Non-integer bounds:

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