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April 4, 2008

Explained: Sum of all numbers

Filed under: General — Confused Desi @ 3:25 am
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 I went to BetterExplained through one of Ray’s links and its freaking awesome.

I just read an entry, which explains the following formula, not in 2 but 4 different ways.

Sum from 1 to n = 

I wish somebody had explained formulas like this to me in school, or I had bothered learning maths this way, I would have been a genius by now.  Thanks Ray & Thanks to Kalid Azad, for explaining it in such simple way!

1 Comment »

  1. Hi, just ran across this post — glad you enjoyed the site! I too wish someone had shown that there are many ways to see the same equation, sometimes one way or another clicks. Take care,

    -Kalid

    Comment by Kalid — April 27, 2008 @ 6:15 pm | Reply


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