tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 11 19:39:27 2000
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Re: math questions / sums
>> 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
>
>
what I was atempting to show for an equation was
the sum of (n+1) for 1 through 5 respectivly
(1+1)+(1+2)+(1+3)+(1+4)+(1+5)=20
to five from 1 for the sums of (n+1)
prehaps I could have used "SIm" instead of "ghoH" for the discussion of the
unknown variable or element apon which the function of sumation or SUMS was
performed over the interval defined by 5 and 1,,