Re: Evaluating a sum from terms generated by the Array
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- Subject: [mg109521] Re: Evaluating a sum from terms generated by the Array
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 06:11:53 -0400 (EDT)
Very simple:
Apply[Plus, Array[((-1)^(# + 1) (x)^#)/# !&, 3, 1 ]]
Or, using the prefix @@ abbreviation for Apply:
Plus @@ Array[((-1)^(# + 1) (x)^#)/#! &, 3, 1]
Or, with a newer specialized function in Mathematica:
Total[Array[((-1)^(# + 1) (x)^#)/#! &, 3, 1]]
Or:
Total @ Array[((-1)^(# + 1) (x)^#)/#! &, 3, 1]
On 5/2/2010 5:35 AM, davef wrote:
> I want to evaluate a sum from a series I created using the Array
> function.
>
> For example; I specify
>
> Array[((-1)^(# + 1) (x)^#)/# !&, 3, 1 ]
>
> which gives me the following 3 terms of output:
>
> {x, -(x^2/2), x^3/6}
>
> Can anyone tell if and how I can turn these 3 terms into a sum to be
> evaluated?
>
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