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Lecture 5: Sums

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MIT 6.1200J Mathematics for Computer Science, Spring 2024
Instructor: Brynmor Chapman

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Sums are useful for recurrences, counting, probability, runtimes of algorithms, performances of large systems, machine learning, and much more! This lecture looks at ways to approximate sums through perturbation, ansatz method, and the integral method.

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