Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis
From: aroberts@usq.edu.au (Tony Roberts)
Subject: Re: Looking for numerical sum package
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 02:30:46 GMT

In article <44opch$e4d@mira.sara.nl>, vrossum@electron.phys.uva.nl
(M.C.W._van Rossum) wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I am looking for a package calculating sums like:
> sum_(i=1..infinity) f(i).
> ( f(i) of course decaing rapidly enough)
> 
> This may sound trivial, but I want to know the errors
> and stuff.

Bender & Orszag ("Adv Math Methods for sci & Eng" McGraw-Hill) have a whole
chapter of the summation of series and the improvement of their
convergence---fascinating stuff.
                                   Tony
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