Matlab command for the following symbol: ∏ (Capital Pi / product of a sequence of terms)

Hi

I have an equation that i want to implement in Matlab and it has the following symbol ∏ (used to denote Capital Pi or the product of a sequence of terms).

I want to know what is the matlab command for ∏?

Answer 1

[Matt J]

The PROD command.

[Matt J]

what if i have limit as well, say from i=1 to 10?

E.g.,

 a=rand(1,100);

 p=prod(a(1:10))

[badr-eddine darihem]

thank you

Answer 2

[Jan]

prod computes the product of the elements of a vector or array. This is near to the definition of your Pi, but not exactly the same, e.g. you cannot define the limits equivalently.

[Syed]

what if i have limit as well, say from i=1 to 10?

[Jan]

See Matt J's comment.

I suggest to use the documentation to find out such solutions by your own. While the indexing methods are explained exhaustively (I love this term when I speak about Matlab's documentation) in the "Getting Stared" chapters, you can find the prod() function e.g. by:

docsearch product

[Eoin Roe]

I know this was asked some time ago but for anyone browsing this page in the future there is also this:

symprod(f, k, a, b)