Re: Evaluating expression: help
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- Subject: [mg22204] Re: Evaluating expression: help
- From: Harald Giese <giese at ifm.uni-hamburg.de>
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 02:34:40 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Institut fuer Meereskunde, Universitaet Hamburg
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Marco de Innocentis wrote:
>
> I need to evaluate expressions like the following
>
> Sum (from n = -5 to +5) q^(6*(n + 1/3)^2)*y^(12*(n + 1/3))
>
> Is it possible to do this from Mathematica? If not,
> which other programs can be used?
Hi Marco,
Mathematica can do that:
In[]:=
Sum[ q^(6*(n + 1/3)^2)*y^(12*(n + 1/3)), {n, -5, 5}]
Out[]=
q^(392/3)/y^56 + q^(242/3)/y^44 +
q^(128/3)/y^32 + q^(50/3)/y^20 + q^(8/3)/y^8 +
q^(2/3)*y^4 + q^(32/3)*y^16 + q^(98/3)*y^28 +
q^(200/3)*y^40 + q^(338/3)*y^52 + q^(512/3)*y^64
Regards,
/Harald