summation

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I'm sure a summation of "he hasn't thought things through" is a bit unfair.

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a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)

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a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)

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(physiology) the process whereby multiple stimuli can produce a response (in a muscle or nerve or other part) that one stimulus alone does not produce

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the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for summation.

noun

a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)

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(physiology) the process whereby multiple stimuli can produce a response (in a muscle or nerve or other part) that one stimulus alone does not produce

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the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered"

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the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers; "the summation of four and three gives seven"; "four plus three equals seven"

Example sentences

I'm sure a summation of "he hasn't thought things through" is a bit unfair.

But I'm not afraid of a summation or an argmax.

"That's a good summation of most comments on HN about Windows 8 and the Surface.

One of the big limitations to this is the cost of the legal process and prior-art search/summation.

Your summation of the EU actually sounds a lot like what the US started out as, save their constitution appears in multiple treaties.

The summation of this effort is a frankenstein product with a user experience that is equally as scary.

The Ramanujan summation is not the real summation, its a way to assign a sum to divergent series which can be useful in some cases.

My summation of the issue would be that it is a policy failure being exploited by a social engineering attack vector.

Maybe I'm naive, but I personally find it much simpler just to see how you can construct an arbitrary waveform using the summation of a series of sinusoids - and then a Fourier transform is just the inverse operation...

And exactly how long it would take is task-specific question, because depends more on what optimization techniques can be used for the task and what cannot, so unless you are interested specifically in summation mod 256, this information isn't much of use, as "processing" is much broader than "adding moulo 256".But it's nice that somewhere somebody else understood, that computers are fast.