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  • From: Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Math Problem
  • Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:49:10 -0500

you can do this...

where the <'s form a sigma

N
< N^n
<
n=1

which would add up N^1 + N^2 + ... + N^n

since N is the limit of n, N^n = N^N

so you could then drop that into, say, maple, with something like
sum('N^n','n'=1..N)

to get an answer

hth
ian

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:33:23 -0500 (EST), Alan MacHett
<machett AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
> In reference to John Broome's message:
> > Would 'n factorial' find what you're looking for?
> >
>
> Yes it does, thanks!; however, that still doesn't:
>
> [1] help in the search engines for someone that doesn't know or had
> forgotten ;) that !==factorial ... I still wonder if there's a search
> engine that allows punctuation.
>
> [2] answer what "N^1 + N^2 + ... + N^N" is.
>
> And I did find: http://www.mathforum.org/
>
> -A.
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