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87.02 Sums of consecutive positive integers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Tom M. Apostol*
Affiliation:
Project Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA. email: apostol@caltech.edu

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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 2003

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