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mollusque commented on the word summatories
In formal mathematics, on the other hand, the ellipsis is removed and the theorem is expressed through a different abstraction marker: the sign for summatories ∑, but even using this sign some ambiguity will remain...
--Luis A. Pineda, 2002, in Lorenzo Magnani, Nancy J. Nersessian, Claudio Pizzi (eds.), Logical and Computational Aspects of Model-Based Reasoning, p. 84.
March 19, 2008
sionnach commented on the word summatories
Other possible usage:
"Lady Thatcher addressed the Summatories at the party's leadership convention in Brighton last weekend".
March 20, 2008
seanahan commented on the word summatories
Interesting, I've always referred to sigma as the "Summation sign". Of course, in Latex it is just \Sum.
March 20, 2008