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Summation over finite sets, definition

Let X be a set with nN elements and let f:XN be a function from X to the real numbers. Then we define the finite sum xXf(x) as follows.

Select any [...] g from {iN:1in} to X. Such a [...] exists since X is assumed to have n elements. We then define:
xXf(x):=i=1n[...]