Re: Summations with Primes
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg39958] Re: Summations with Primes
- From: Friedrich Laher <mathefritz at schmieder-laher.de>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 03:02:27 -0500 (EST)
- References: <b4mnus$imf$1@smc.vnet.net>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
use wrapper
ff[i_]:=If[PrimeQ[i],f[i],0]
and do the summation with ff instead of f
or
take the If direktly as the expression to Sum, e.g.
Sum[If[PrimeQ[i],i,0],{i,0,20}]
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Anthony Felder schrieb:
> Can you tell me if, when calculating a summation of f(i) where i goes from
> imin to imax, Mathematica can be forced to only use prime values for i?
>
> Thank you for your time
>
> Anthony Felder
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