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Continued operation notation for symbol manipulation and array processing
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Volume 6 ,  Issue 8  (August 1963) table of contents
Pages: 467 - 472  
Year of Publication: 1963
ISSN:0001-0782
Author
M. P. Barnett  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

A brief account is given of a notational device that is very useful in the formal representation of syntaxes, string relationships and string transformation procedures and also of computing procedures that deal with arrays of functions of many variables. The device consists of the use of certain “continued operation” or “collective” symbols that are analogous to the summation symbol ∑ and continued multiplication symbol ∏ of conventional mathematics.


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