Re: Product and Summation sign
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- Subject: [mg66814] Re: Product and Summation sign
- From: "Steve Luttrell" <steve_usenet at _removemefirst_luttrell.org.uk>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 06:31:15 -0400 (EDT)
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?Sum
gives
"Sum[f, {i, imax}] evaluates the sum of the expressions f as evaluated for
each i from 1 to imax. Sum[f, {i, imin, imax}] starts with i = imin. Sum[f,
{i, imin, imax, di}] uses steps di. Sum[f, {i, imin, imax}, {j, jmin, jmax},
... ] evaluates a sum over multiple indices."
so the result that you obtained from Sum[x[i],{i,1,50}] was the correctly
evaluated result.
However
?HoldForm
gives
"HoldForm[expr] prints as the expression expr, with expr maintained in an
unevaluated form."
so to obtain the result that you wanted to see (i.e. one that is
unevaluated) then you need to to evaluate
Sum[x[i],{i,1,50}]//HoldForm
Steve Luttrell
West Malvern, UK
<actuary at mchsi.com> wrote in message news:e5h5d7$eo7$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> While a Mathematica user for some time, use has been limited to number
> crunching and not symbolic manipulations. I started to remedy this
> over the weekend.
>
> I entered Sum[x[i],{i,1,50}] expecting to see a response with Summation
> sign. Instead the output was x[1}+x[2]+x[3]+.....
>
> What do I need to do to get output that includes the Summation sign?
> StandardForm was checked.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Larry
>