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throw-the-towel • today at 4:25 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

i has been the default variable for sum notation in mathematics long before FORTRAN. Here's an example dating from 1838: https://www.numdam.org/item/JMPA_1838_1_3__508_0.pdf


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vintagedave • today at 6:51 PM

Where in that doc, sorry? I thought I spotted something then realized it may have been a ‘1’.