A Sample Computation

• Consider the problem of summing a sequence of numbers, x1, x2 , x3 , ..., xn: S xi

• Standard solution:

• The solution specifies a specific order for the summation, which is not essential

sum = 0;

for (i=0;i<n;i++){

sum = sum + X[i];

};

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