The sum of a sequence in [0,∞] is the supremum of its partial sums, formed with the sum of [0,∞]; it always exists in [0,∞].
In the setting of Routine Facts Used Without Citation: Arithmetic, Maps, Predicativity and Indices, let be as in The Extended Real Line, Its Order, and [0,∞] (ii), its sum as in Addition and Multiplication on [0,∞] (i), and suprema in , for its order of The Extended Real Line, Its Order, and [0,∞] (iii), as in Order and Suprema in the Extended Real Line (iii). Let be a sequence in .
For , the -th partial sum of is the iterated operation of on , as in Iterated Operations: Finite Sums and Finite Products (ii) and Iterated Operations: Finite Sums and Finite Products (iii). As is a binary operation on , is a sequence in , the map on existing by Maps Given by Iterated Operations: Partial Iterates, Images of Natural Numbers, Powers and Operations over a Finite Set (i).
The sum of is
which exists by Order and Suprema in the Extended Real Line (iii) and lies in by Order and Suprema in the Extended Real Line (ix), the set of the partial sums being a nonempty subset of . For an expression with for every , is the sum of the sequence .
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