Summation is Linear

Theorem

Let $\tuple {x_1, \ldots, x_n}$ and $\tuple {y_1, \ldots, y_n}$ be finite sequences of numbers of equal length.

Let $\lambda$ be a number.

Then:

Sum of Summations

$\ds \sum_{i \mathop = 1}^n x_i + \sum_{i \mathop = 1}^n y_i = \sum_{i \mathop = 1}^n \paren {x_i + y_i}$

Scaling of Summations

$\ds \lambda \sum_{i \mathop = 1}^n x_i = \sum_{i \mathop = 1}^n \lambda x_i$

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