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- From: kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Closed forms for sums
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.102644.9742@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 10:26:44 -0600
- References: <964.165.uupcb@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us>
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- In article <964.165.uupcb@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us>, james.jones@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (James Jones) writes:
- > OB>Subject: sum(i=1 to n, i^3) = ?? URGENT !!
- >
- > While we're on the subject, I was killing some time with Derive, a
- > Mathematical Assistant one day waiting form my Finite class to begin
- > and found the closed form for
- >
- > ---
- > \ j
- > > i
- > /
- > ---
- > i=1
- >
- > where j went from 1 to about 12 or 13. Can't remember exactly where I
- > stopped at.
- [stuff deleted]
- >
- > Any explanation or references (explanation preferred) would be
- > appreciated.
-
- Isn't this all explained in the Chemical Rubber Company's (a.k.a. the "Rubber
- Book" or C.R.C. Manual) in the a-### section?
-
- As I recall, they gave explicit closed-form sums for the first six values of j,
- and then proceeded to give the general formula.
-
- Of course, this is just off the top of my head.
-
- --jim
-