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the name used in Russian chronicles to refer to the Balto-Finnish Suomi tribe, which settled on the southwest coast of Finland early in the first millennium A.D. After subjugating the Sum’ in the mid-12th century, the Swedish feudal lords began the conquest of Finland. Subsequently, the Sum’, Häme, and western Karelian tribes combined to form the Finnish nationality.
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the result of the addition of such quantities as numbers, functions, vectors, or matrices. In all cases the commutative and associative laws hold; moreover, if multiplication is defined for the quantities in question, then it is distributive over addition. Thus, the following relations are satisfied:
a + b = b + a
a + (b + c) = (a + b) + c
(a + b)c = ac + bc
c(a + b) = ca + cb
In set theory, the sum, or union, of sets is the set whose elements belong to at least one of the given sets.
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(theory)inA : A -> A+B inB : B -> A+B inA(a) = (0,a) inB(b) = (1,b)
and a disassembly operation:
case d of isA
This can be generalised to arbitrary numbers of domains.
See also smash sum, disjoint union.
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(tool)Unix manual page: sum(1).