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Old 11-22-2008, 01:58 PM
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Graphing Calculator Question : Sigma Notation

Anyone here have a TI-83 or TI-84 graphing calculator?

I'm trying to find a way to do "Sigma Notation" sums. I would think there should be a way that we could pull up a Sigma, give it a function with an interval of values, run it and get the sum.

Here's a simple example.

10
SIGMA n^2
n = 1

[Enter] should give me the sum total of 1 + 9 + 16 + ... + 100.

Is there something built-in, or do I need write and store a program in the calculator to do it?
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