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Could someone sum up for me why integration uses "S"? It doesn't square with me, nor does it add up.
by mahmud 16y ago
Could someone sum up for me why integration uses "S"? It doesn't square with me, nor does it add up.
- gmartres 16y agoFor a great explanation of how integral relates to summing the product of infinitely many terms, see: http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-calculus-analogy-integrals-as-multiplication/ http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-calculus-analogy-integ...
- tedunangst 16y agowikipedia tells me it is because S stands for the latin word summa.
- ludwigvan 16y agoExactly.(Riemann) integral is summation with infinitesimal quantities. (It was Leibniz who used long s to denote integration, though. http://jeff560.tripod.com/calculus.html http://jeff560.tripod.com/calculus.html ) Also, for discrete summation, capital 's'igma is used.