Learn English – Correct use of bound/bounded

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I am not sure how to correctly use the word bound in this context:

All partial sums of two given sequences are bounded by a positive constant.

All partial sums of two given sequences are bound by a positive constant.

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Verb: bind
Past: bound
Noun: a binding (in some senses)
Used in various senses in physics and computer science but not in mathematics.

Verb: bound
Past: bounded
Noun: a bound
Used in mathematics and computing to denote a range or finite area in which a value must be.

The sentence in your question is about a bound, therefore the past participle is bounded.

All partial sums of two given sequences are bounded by a positive constant.
There is a bound on the partial sums of two given sequences.

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