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		ta123456789 on Feb 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fundamental Math for Game Developers > you should not, absolutely not translate math notation to code. I don't see a problem, if eg it helps with getting some intuition. Sure there is a formula for this example. But the point in the article of writing this sum as a for loop is to explain what the notation means. For a programmer who is not familiar with sigma/pi notation for sum/product, explaining it with a for loop is a quick way to understand.

SamBam on Feb 8, 2023 [–]

Exactly, that was my take-away. You don't need to think of the Sum function as a for-loop every time you use Sum, but it certainly helps explain it to a programmer who doesn't have a sense of what Sum is, but knows what a for-loop is.

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