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Re: Summations with Primes

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  • Subject: [mg39984] Re: Summations with Primes
  • From: atelesforos at hotmail.com (Orestis Vantzos)
  • Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 03:06:00 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <b4mnus$imf$1@smc.vnet.net>
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

There are two options:
If you want the primes Prime[i1] through Prime[i2] then use
Sum[f[Prime[i]],{i,i1,i2}]
The problem is that you'll need to find the appropriate i1,i2 so that
imin<=Prime[i1]<Prime[i2]<=imax.

Second approach is:
Sum[If[PrimeQ[i],f[i],0],{i,imin,imax}]

Orestis

"Anthony Felder" <afelder at crsi.org> wrote in message news:<b4mnus$imf$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> 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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