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sum quod sum: I am what I am: from Augustine's Sermon No. 76. [16] summa cum laude: with highest praise: summa potestas: sum or totality of power: It refers to the final authority of power in government. For example, power of the Sovereign. summa summarum: all in all: Literally "sum of sums". When a short conclusion is rounded up at the end of ...
In mathematics, summation is the addition of a sequence of numbers, called addends or summands; the result is their sum or total.Beside numbers, other types of values can be summed as well: functions, vectors, matrices, polynomials and, in general, elements of any type of mathematical objects on which an operation denoted "+" is defined.
bibo ergo sum: I drink, therefore I am: A play on "cogito ergo sum", "I think therefore I am" bis dat qui cito dat: he gives twice, who gives promptly: A gift given without hesitation is as good as two gifts. bis in die (bid) twice in a day: Medical shorthand for "twice a day" bona fide: in good faith: In other words, "well-intentioned", "fairly".
Sometimes the imperfect of sum is used with a potential meaning ('would be'): [89] omnīnō supervacua erat doctrīna, sī nātūra sufficeret [90] 'teaching would be completely superfluous, if nature was sufficient' vehementer intererat vestrā, quī patrēs estis, līberōs vestrōs hīc potissimum discere (Pliny) [91]
The sum a + b can be interpreted as a binary operation that combines a and b, in an algebraic sense, or it can be interpreted as the addition of b more units to a. Under the latter interpretation, the parts of a sum a + b play asymmetric roles, and the operation a + b is viewed as applying the unary operation +b to a. [20]
The verb sum "I am" (or its parts) is an exception to the rule that verbs tend to come at the end of the sentence in Caesar and Cicero. According to one investigation, in Caesar, when the verb is sum, only 10% of main clauses end with the verb. With other verbs, the figure is 90%. [60]
Sum, an old name for the Finns in East Slavic languages, derived from the word Suomi, "Finland" Soum (currency) (also spelled "sum"), a unit of currency used in some Turkic-speaking countries of Central Asia; SUM (interbank network), an interbank network in 42 U.S. states; SUM, the ISO 639-3 code for the Sumo language
In number theory, σ is included in various divisor functions, especially the sigma function or sum-of-divisors function. In applied mathematics, σ(T) denotes the spectrum of a linear map T. In complex analysis, σ is used in the Weierstrass sigma-function.