Quantcast help with summation Text - Physics Forums Library

PDA

View Full Version : help with summation


epkid08
Oct9-08, 05:24 PM
Is there a way to simplify this sum to a generalized function? Would I have to use the gamma function?

\sum^x_{k=0} ({t \choose {2k}}/(2k+1)^y)

where x and y are constants

This is not homework.

epkid08
Oct9-08, 09:31 PM
Would it help at all if I added that x is a function of t?