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Ramanujan summation

Ramanujan summation noun: a technique for assigning a value to an infinite divergent series, not summation in the traditional sense, but having useful mathematical properties.

Noun

Ramanujan summation (uncountable)

  1. A technique for assigning a value to an infinite divergent series, not summation in the traditional sense, but having useful mathematical properties.

Origin of Ramanujan summation

Invented by the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

Questions about Ramanujan summation

What does Ramanujan summation mean?
Ramanujan summation means a technique for assigning a value to an infinite divergent series, not summation in the traditional sense, but having useful mathematical properties.
What part of speech is Ramanujan summation?
Ramanujan summation is a noun.

Words near Ramanujan summation in the dictionary

  1. Ramanujan conjecture
  2. Ramanujan graph
  3. Ramanujan graphs
  4. Ramanujan prime
  5. Ramanujan primes
  6. Ramanujan summation
  7. Ramanujan theta function
  8. Ramanujan's constant
  9. Ramanujan's sum
  10. Ramanujan's sums
  11. Ramanujan-Hardy number

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