Zulip Chat Archive
Stream: new members
Topic: ISO style advice for nested sum with unique indices
Becker A. (Dec 29 2025 at 07:36):
I want to write something like this:
I've been using something like this:
∑ i1, ∑ i2 ∈ univ.erase i1, ∑ i3 ∈ (univ.erase i1).erase i2, f i1 * f i2 * f i3
is there a "cleaner" way of expressing this?
Yaël Dillies (Dec 29 2025 at 07:41):
You could sum over sets of size three: ∑ s ∈ .powersetCard 3 .univ, ∏ i ∈ s, x i
Yaël Dillies (Dec 29 2025 at 07:41):
This assumes x is valued in a commutative monoid
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