Arithmetic Series
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To find the sum of the terms in an arithmetic sequence, it is possible to calculate the sum instead of summing all the individual terms.
Contributed by: Daniel de Souza Carvalho (March 2011)
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Let the arithmetic sequence be and the sum of the arithmetic series be .
Then the sum of the first terms is:
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