Re: Summations with Primes
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- Subject: [mg39944] Re: [mg39932] Summations with Primes
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 03:00:13 -0500 (EST)
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As long as i is not too large, effectively yes. For example, suppose
your imin is 7 and imax is 31. Then:
Sum[f[Prime[i]],{i,PrimePi[7],PrimePi[31]}]
f[7]+f[11]+f[13]+f[17]+f[19]+f[23]+f[29]+f[31]
is essentially what you wanted.
Andrzej Kozlowski
Yokohama, Japan
http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/
http://platon.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/andrzej/
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 04:29 pm, Anthony Felder wrote:
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> Can you tell me if, when calculating a summation of f(i) where i goes
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> imin to imax, Mathematica can be forced to only use prime values for i?
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> Thank you for your time
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> Anthony Felder
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