Error summing range with units

Hi,

The issue is earlier in the worksheet.

Please enclose the worksheet.

Cheers

Terry

Your post is missing a worksheet (attachment).

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@EP_10048426 wrote:

I have a range of lengths. I need to sum them after pushing them through a function. Unfortunately the sum operator is not happy and stating: "Ranges with units must specify the second value in the range". Thank you for your time and help.]

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What this normally means is that the user has defined a range with units, but only specified the first and last values, eg, i:=1 m..10 m.

Mathcad requires ranges with units to have the 'step' value, eg, i:=1 m, 2 m .. 10 m.

However, as noted in other messages, it is difficult (read 'normally impossible') to diagnose an error without the guilty worksheet.  Error messages can be misleading or complete red herrings.

Cheers,

Stuart

I don't think that the OP has defined a range variable above the expression shown in the pic. It looks to me that the problem is rather that the upper limit of his sum is not a simple scalar but a quantity with a unit, maybe a length. So basically he is trying to do something like

Unfortunately I wasn't able to get the desired result using the sum operator alone without having to define something else like a vector or a a global range variable on worksheet level 😞

OK, one way to avoid defining anything else is to get rid of the units in the summation and add them to the function argument, but I would not recommend doing so: