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John E. Franklin

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Registered: 2005-08-29

Posts: 3,588

summation set or list

Why isn't there a word for
the set of numbers to be
added together in a summation?
And what is the name for
each number in the list
to be added?  For example,
with vectors, we have a
word called "components"
or "projections", but for
regular scalar numbers,
I can't think of the word
for a number that is in a
sum of numbers.  Am I having
a mental block?

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soroban

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Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 452

Re: summation set or list

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