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INDICE SOMMATION [1 record]

Record 1 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistics
  • Mathematics
OBS

[The letter "j" in "X in. j"] is called a subscript or index. ... Summation notation ... is used to denote the sum of all the "X in j"s.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statistique
  • Mathématiques
OBS

Désormais, on supprimera l'indice de sommation «i» sous le signe sigma quand il n'y aura pas de confusion possible.

Spanish

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