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by darkkindness 2343 days ago
Agreed, I think the syntax used is not that common. (This is a problem, I think, with math notation -- everyone's notation means different things, google "substitution notation history" for the worst.) They definitely meant to write:

https://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?\sum_{\substack{i\in[1,...

"sum of all i² where i is in [1,5] and i mod 3 = 1".