sums-of-integers-squares-and-cubes

Sums of integers, squares & cubes

How can we use sigma notation?

• When writing the sum of a series you can use sigma notation

  • The series  can instead be written as  or 

  • This means “the sum of all the terms from to for the sequence described by “

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