Another good reference on notation is the Graham - Knuth - Patashnik
book CONCRETE MATHEMATICS a Foundation for Computer Science and the
associated Concrete Math Companion by Ken Iverson. Chapter two of the
respective books are on summation and notation.
The Iverson book is available to read in the j wiki - the other one for
around $25 used, or perhaps at a library.
On 2012/12/21 23:25 , Roger Hui wrote:
Lambda considered harmful? LOL
No, sigma considered harmful. In conventional notation there's big sigma
for summation and big pi for product. But how do you do max insert (>./)?
Min insert (<./)? And insert (^./)? Etc.
Infinite series (products, etc.) best done by having infinite vectors. See
*Remembering Eugene
McDonnell*<http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/eem/eemapl2010.htm>
i. 4
0 1 2 3
i. _
0 1 2 3 4 5 ...
+/ 3 ^ - i. _
1.5
and *Bring Something Beautiful* <http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10500390> .
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Alex Giannakopoulos <
[email protected]> wrote:
Very nice, Linda, thanks.
That's just the example I needed.
I think I'm beginning to get the 'geist' of it now!
(Lambda considered harmful? LOL)
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