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formal sums

formal sums is the plural of formal sum.

Meaning of formal sum

Noun

formal sum (plural formal sums)

  1. An element of a free abelian group or vector space regarded as a sum of basis elements.
  2. A sum of an infinite sequence of numbers considered as an indeterminate object, in the sense of being subject to certain algebraic manipulations but not necessarily convergent.

Questions about formal sums

What is formal sums the plural of?
Formal sums is the plural of formal sum.

Words near formal sums in the dictionary

  1. formal science
  2. formal sciences
  3. formal semantics
  4. formal sociology
  5. formal sum
  6. formal sums
  7. formal swap
  8. formal swaps
  9. formal system
  10. formal systems
  11. formal validities

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