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Product

Function: product (<expr>, <i>, <i_0>, <i_1>) Represents a product of the values of <expr> as the index <i> varies from <i_0> to <i_1>. The noun form product is displayed as an uppercase letter pi.

product evaluates <expr> and lower and upper limits <i_0> and <i_1>, product quotes (does not evaluate) the index <i>.

If the upper and lower limits differ by an integer, <expr> is evaluated for each value of the index <i>, and the result is an explicit product.

Otherwise, the range of the index is indefinite. Some rules are applied to simplify the product. When the global variable simpproduct is true, additional rules are applied. In some cases, simplification yields a result which is not a product; otherwise, the result is a noun form product.

See also nouns and evflag.

Examples:

          (%i1) product (x + i*(i+1)/2, i, 1, 4);
          (%o1)           (x + 1) (x + 3) (x + 6) (x + 10)
          (%i2) product (i^2, i, 1, 7);
          (%o2)                       25401600
          (%i3) product (a[i], i, 1, 7);
          (%o3)                 a  a  a  a  a  a  a
                                 1  2  3  4  5  6  7
          (%i4) product (a(i), i, 1, 7);
          (%o4)          a(1) a(2) a(3) a(4) a(5) a(6) a(7)
          (%i5) product (a(i), i, 1, n);
                                       n
                                     /===\
                                      ! !
          (%o5)                       ! !  a(i)
                                      ! !
                                     i = 1
          (%i6) product (k, k, 1, n);
                                         n
                                       /===\
                                        ! !
          (%o6)                         ! !  k
                                        ! !
                                       k = 1
          (%i7) product (k, k, 1, n), simpproduct;
          (%o7)                          n!
          (%i8) product (integrate (x^k, x, 0, 1), k, 1, n);
                                       n
                                     /===\
                                      ! !    1
          (%o8)                       ! !  -----
                                      ! !  k + 1
                                     k = 1
          (%i9) product (if k <= 5 then a^k else b^k, k, 1, 10);
                                        15  40
          (%o9)                        a   b

There are also some inexact matches for product. Try ?? product to see them.

(%o1)                                true
(%i2)