Phrase Hound found 10 phrases and 5 compound words that contain summation. The most common are listed below. Open summation in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 10
- Borel summationA summation method for divergent series, particularly useful for summing divergent asymptotic series, and in some sense giving the best possible sum for such series.
- compensated summationThe use of the Kahan summation algorithm.
- summation methodAny of various methods for constructing generalized sums of series
- summation methodsplural of summation method: Any of various methods for constructing generalized sums of series
- Ramanujan summationA technique for assigning a value to an infinite divergent series, not summation in the traditional sense, but having useful mathematical properties.
- Mittag-Leffler summationAny of several variations of the Borel summation method for summing possibly divergent formal power series.
- Kahan summation algorithmAn algorithm that significantly reduces the numerical error in the total obtained by adding a sequence of finite-precision floating-point numbers, compared to the obvious approach, by tracking the accumulated small errors in a separate …
- Abel's summation formulaA formula used in analytic number theory and the study of special functions to compute series.
- summation pluralA plurale tantum.
- summation pluralsplural of summation plural: A plurale tantum.
Compound words 5
- resummationA procedure to obtain a finite result from a divergent sum (series) of functions, involving the integral transformation of another (convergent) function in which the individual terms defining the original function are rescaled.
- subsummationA subordinate or secondary summation.
- summationalOf or pertaining to summation.
- missummationWrong summation; incorrect addition.
- consummationThe act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; the state of being completed; completion.