Using Bernoulli's Formula to Sum Powers of the Integers from 1 to n
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The Gauss schoolboy problem is to add the numbers 1 to 100. The trick is to pair the numbers to get
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Contributed by: Ed Pegg Jr (September 2016)
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[1] S. Wolfram, "Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace," from Stephen Wolfram Blog—A Wolfram Web Resource. (Aug 29, 2016) blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace.
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