I thought if the lower and upper bound of a summation are equal, that from that would follow that the sum is always equl to 0. But when trying this in Wolfram Alpha the result is just one iteration of the summation term. Can someone please explain if my hypothesis therefore is wrong?&lt;math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" "&gt; ∑ j = 0 0 1 = 1

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I thought if the lower and upper bound of a summation are equal, that from that would follow that the sum is always equl to 0. But when trying this in Wolfram Alpha the result is just one iteration of the summation term. Can someone please explain if my hypothesis therefore is wrong?&amp;lt;math xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML&quot; &quot;&amp;gt;      ∑          j      =      0        0    1  =  1

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Alternatively, at that point, you could also define&amp;lt;math xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML&quot; &quot;&amp;gt;      ∑          i      =      m        n        a    i    =      ∑          i      =      0        n        a    i    −      ∑          i      =      0              m      −      1            a    i

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