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Re: Help please: Summing a list

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  • Subject: [mg13500] Re: Help please: Summing a list
  • From: "W. K. Bertram" <wkb at ansto.gov.au>
  • Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 04:33:18 -0400
  • Organization: Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

robpetersonSPAMME at iname.com wrote:

> I make a list of numbers, eg:
>
> P=Table[6,{x,0,110}]; (I have a more interesting list to use later if I
> get this working)
>
> Now I want to make another list PP in which each entry PP[[i]] is the
> sum of P's first i entries.  I try
>
> PP[[i]]:=Sum[P[[n]],{n,0,i}];

This will work;pp = Table[Plus @@ Take[p, i], {i, 1, 110}]

Cheers,
    Bill



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