singly embedded sum and product signs

Question

I deal with a lot of double sums / double products. I would like to be able to massage TeX into producing something like this:

(that was made with the gimp) ... and a product in product symbol as well.

Answer 1

You can have a look at the section Joining and overlapping existing symbols in manual of Comprehensive Symbol List.

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\newcommand\SUM{\mathop{%
  \ooalign{%
    \hfil$\displaystyle\sum$\cr
    \hfil$\textstyle\sum$\cr}}}

\[
  \SUM A_i
\]

\end{document}

Answer 2

For what it is worth, Unicode defines

⅀ U+2140 DOUBLE-STRUCK N-ARY SUMMATION

If you are able to use unicode-math (with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX) and appropriate math fonts, you can access that symbol with \mathbb{\sum}.

STIX/XITS Math gives and Cambria Math gives .