tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Oct 09 14:53:32 2000
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Re: math questions / sums
- From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: math questions / sums
- Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 16:53:31 CDT
ja' Voragh:
> It's been over two decades since I took high school calculus. Could you give
> us an example of a *simple* summation - use "SUM" for the sigma symbol to
> ensure that everyone can read it in ASCII - followed by how an English-speaki
> ng
> mathematician would read the equation out aloud? Then we could try to figure
> out how Maltz would recite it in Klingon.
>
a simple example:
5
SUM i
i=1
I'm not exactly sure how it is read in _English_, but likely
close to "the sum of i, for i from one to five"
meaning (i=1) + (i=2) + (i=3) + (i=4) + (i=5) i.e. 1+2+3+4+5
a more formal example:
i_max
SUM n_i = n_(i_min) + n_(i_min+1) + ... + n_(i_max-1) + n_(i_max)
i=i_min
where it is assumed that you have some way of knowing "what n_i is"
in some (not necessarily very specific) sense for all the indices
i_min <= i <= i_max that occur in the formula
Marc Ruehlaender
aka HomDoq
[email protected]