Symbols can also provide succinct instructions about how to perform calculations

And a long string of sequential terms added together is collapsed into a capital sigma.These symbols shorten lengthy calculations to smaller terms that are much easier to manipulate.Symbols can also provide succinct instructions about how to perform calculations.Consider the following set of operations on a number.Take some number that you're thinking of,multiply it by two,subtract one from the result,multiply the result of that by itself,divide the result of that by three,and then add one to get the final output.Without our symbols and conventions,we'd be faced with this block of text.