What is summation notation?
1 Answer
Jun 25, 2015
Summation is a shorthand way for writing long additions.
Explanation:
Say you want to add all numbers up to and including 50.
Then you could write out:
(If you really write this out in full, it'll be a long line of numbers).
With this notation you would write:
Meaning: sum up all the numbers
The
Another example:
If you want to add all the squares from
You see that this