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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof A J Roberts Dept Mathematics & Computing E-mail: aroberts@usq.edu.au Uni of Southern Queensland Phone: (76) 312943 Toowoomba, Queensland 4350 Fax: (76) 312721 Australia WWW: http://www.sci.usq.edu.au /pub/MC/staff/robertsa/home.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------