Writing sums with a loop?

How would I express this with a loop in MATLAB?

x=absolute value of (1000-)

[James Tursa]

What have you done so far? What specific problems are you having with your code?

[Adam Danz]

If you have no idea where to start, look up how to use these functions

• abs()
• sum()
• for, end

Answer 1

[Shivani Dixit]

MATLAB provides you with and easy to understand document that you can take advantage of. The functions that the above mentioned equation requires are inbuilt in matlab , you can perform the summation by either using loop or multiplication , since the summation part is independent of variable n. You can leverage the below documentations :

for loop : https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/for.html

abs function : https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/abs.html