RE: Evaluate the following series:

[Ted Harding]

Sorry, typos in my reply!

On 12-Aug-2012 07:12:28 Ted Harding wrote:
> On 12-Aug-2012 06:45:43 address@hidden wrote:
>> 1^2+2^2+3^2+...+100^2.
>> 
>> Could this be correct, I'm getting sum=50005000?
>> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
> 
> 50005000 is correct for 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + (100^2), i.e. sum((1:(100^2)),
50005000 is correct for 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + (100^2), i.e. sum(1:(100^2)),

> but not for 1^2 + 2^2 + 3^2 + ... + 100^2, which is 338350.
> 
> You evaluated sum((1:(100^2)) instead of sum((1:100)^2).
You evaluated sum(1:(100^2)) instead of sum((1:100)^2).

> Ted.
> 
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