Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!cab From: cab@allegra.UUCP (Carol Beck) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: need help with series summation (only if you're bored) Message-ID: <2846@allegra.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 16:34:40 EDT Article-I.D.: allegra.2846 Posted: Tue Oct 9 16:34:40 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Oct-84 04:48:47 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 19 If you're looking for an exciting, stimulating problem, the solution of which reveals the inner harmony of the universe, THIS IS NOT IT. You have been warned. {the sum from a=0 to n of:} ((a+b)C(d-a))*P**(2*a) where qCr is q!/(r!(q-r)!) I've gotten nowhere with this, and if this is because there is no simple answer, please please tell me. Thanks, Carol Beck allegra!cab