Why is symsum operator giving me this answer?
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I am trying to find the sum of a series that goes like 20.^-20+19.^-19+...+1.^-1 Why is the answer such a massive number and why doesn't the formatting command work?
>> syms k
>> format shorteng
>> symsum(k.^(-1.*k),1,20)
ans =
32704926622076322328309250821720456282760440107801920978264646490630691318184399029563038640802578744801153948761512969045499776815021/25327407480969699779230080718754457246512673155164240823229977202846792179169322076528314293406963808740247706009600000000000000000000
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Star Strider
on 22 Sep 2014
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Star Strider
on 22 Sep 2014
My pleasure!
I didn’t see it either at first, the reason I used numden for the clarification.
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