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2025-12-18

Is there a word missing (positive?) from Q9? Surely any positive integer, n, can be written as the sum of the consecutive integers -(n-1),...,-1,0,1,...,n-1,n.

Alec
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2025-12-18

@Alec: Yes, it should say positive integers

Matthew
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