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From: Berin Loritsch <bloritsch@apache.org>
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Leo Sutic wrote:

> 
>>From: Berin Loritsch [mailto:bloritsch@apache.org]
>>Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
>>
>>I
>>don't know
>>what the letter above the sigma or below the sigma is supposed to signify.
>>
> 
> The sigma is like a summing for-loop. Example:
> 
> 
>>>               n
>>>               --
>>> Invalid(r) =  \  (V(r,I ) + Pc(r,I ) + s(r,I ))
>>>               /        i          i         i
>>>               --
>>>              i = 1
>>>
>>>
> 
> would be like (with an asuumption of data types):
> 
> float Invalid (float r) {
>   float sum = 0.0;
>   for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
>     sum += (V(r,I[i]) + Pc(r,I[i]) + s(r,I[i]))
>   }
>   return sum;
> }
> 
> So, you can read the sigma as "sum of <expression after sigma> for all
> integer values of <whatever variable is below the sigma> between <the
> variable below the sigma's initial value> and <the value or variable on top
> of the sigma>". For the above: "sum of (V(r,Ii) + Pc(r,Ii) + s(r,Ii)) for
> all integer values of i between 1 and n".


Thanks Leo!  That helps _alot_.

So, how do we decide what "n" and "m" are?




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