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Re: how to make conditional summation

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  • Subject: [mg55593] Re: how to make conditional summation
  • From: D Herring <dherring at at.uiuc.dot.edu>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 03:22:30 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <d2b4ki$76i$1@smc.vnet.net>
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Hi Xun,

> Say, Sum[f[m],{m,-N,N}] with N != 0
> Any suggestions?

Maybe something like
Sum[If[m==0,0,f[m]], {m,-N,N}]
?

For example,
Sum[If[m==0, 0, 1/m^2], {m, -100, 100}]
would ordinarily fail at m==0.

Later,
Daniel


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