"Counting in their heads" - 1895 oil painting
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08-14-2020, 02:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-14-2020 02:29 PM by Albert Chan.)
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RE: "Counting in their heads" - 1895 oil painting
(08-12-2020 01:32 AM)Albert Chan Wrote: I was wrong. There seems to be a pattern to sum of powers formula after all ... To extend formula for spacings = d, simply replace Sp by Sp/dp, c by c/d Or, just check the dimensions for each term. All terms must have same units. Example, for sum-of-squares, all terms should have unit of c² S2 = n*c² + (n³-n)/12 * d² // c/d is dimensionless, thus c, d have same unit Example, for sum of m odd squares 1² + 3² + 5² + ... + (2m-1)² // d=2, c = m = n = m*m² + m*(m²-1)/12 * 2² = m*(4m²-1)/3 = \(\binom{2m+1}{3}\) We can confirm this from sum-of-n-squares formula \(\begin{align} {n(n+1)(2n+1) \over 6} &= {n(n+1)·[(n-1) + (n+2)] \over 6}\\ \binom{2n+2}{3}/4 &= \binom{n+1}{3} + \binom{n+2}{3}\\ \end{align}\) Let n = 2m: LHS = sum-of-m-odd-squares + sum-of-m-even-squares \(\binom{n+2}{3}\) = 4×sum-of-m-squares = sum-of-m-even-squares ⇒ \(\binom{2m+1}{3}\) = sum-of-m-odd-squares |
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