Please help me understand this formula for Fourier analysis

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I'm a programmer with a poor knowledge of math. Could anyone tell me how to read the infinity above the sigma, and the n=1 below the sigma?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_(mathematics) — anon, Jan 23 '13 at 03:37

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '13 at 03:43

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Its a summation notation,it means the addition of all the terms starting from n = 1 to n= infinity

answered Jan 23 '13 at 03:43

bobdylan

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