... calculate the sum of 1^2 + 2^2 + 3^2 + …. + n^2,(these are exponents) ...
 $sum = 1**2+2**2+3**2+4**2+5**2+6**2+7**+$n**2;
... my calculation is wrong the results is not what it should be, why?

You've left out the …. part of the summation specification from the
    $sum = 1**2+2**2+3**2+4**2+5**2+6**2+7**+$n**2;
statement (update: which is in error in any event: what is the  7**+$n**2 term supposed to represent?). If n were 15, where are 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 in the sequence of numbers to be squared and summed? 

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le
"use Data::Dump qw(dd);
 use List::Util qw(sum reduce);
 ;;
 my $n = 15;
 dd                1 .. $n;
 dd     map $_**2, 1 .. $n;
 dd sum map $_**2, 1 .. $n;
 ;;
 use vars qw($a $b);
 dd reduce { $a + $b**2 } 1 .. $n;
"
(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)

(1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100, 121, 144, 169, 196, 225)

1240

1240

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I haven't tested it, but NetWallah's solution looks right.

Update: See Range Operators in perlop for the  .. operator in list context.

Update 2: I actually missed the whole 

 for ('$i=0; <= $n; $i++')
{
 $sum += $i;
}

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piece of the OPed code, but that's ok because without strictures and warnings enabled, it's just a no-op in the final execution. :)

Update 3: Changed example code to use ranges of  1 .. $n with  $n initialized to 15 instead of literal  1 .. 15 ranges; makes the point a little better. Also added the reduce example.

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In reply to Re: Anonymous Subroutine by AnomalousMonk
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