Re: how to make conditional summation
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- Subject: [mg55577] Re: [mg55545] how to make conditional summation
- From: DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 03:21:14 -0500 (EST)
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Three suggestions:
1) Never capitalize the names of your own variables. N is a built-in function, so it's a bad idea to use it this way.
2) Tell us your question. This is perfectly well defined, for instance:
Sum[Cos@m,{m,-5,5}]
1+2 Cos[1]+2 Cos[2]+2 Cos[3]+2 Cos[4]+2 Cos[5]
and 5 isn't zero, so... what's the problem?
3) If you meant "Sum[f[m],{m,-N,N}] with m != 0", one of these should do it:
Sum[f@m, {m, -n, n}] - f[0]
Sum[f@m, {m, -n, -1}] + Sum[f@m, {m, 1, n}]
or
Sum[Boole[n != 0] f@m, {m, -n, n}]
Boole is in the kernel in version 5, but before that it was in the Calculus`Integration` package.
or...
Sum[If[m != 0, f@m, 0], {m, -n, n}]
Bobby
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 03:42:29 -0500 (EST), Xiao Jun Jun <xiaoxun at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, All,
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> Say, Sum[f[m],{m,-N,N}] with N != 0
> Any suggestions?
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> Regards.
> Xun
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