Summation is the addition of a sequence of numbers, expressed with sigma notation in the general form:
where . We read this as adding up the terms as ranges over the integers from as its lower index to as its upper index. Think of it as a for
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Closed formulas
We additionally have some closed formulas:
Properties
For a constant , as a consequence of the distributive property of real numbers:
Due to the commutative property of real numbers, when we have addition or subtraction of terms: