In my previous post, I tackled this problem: Try to express positive integers in terms of the sum of two or more consecutive positive integers. For instance, 3 = 1+2, 9 = 2+3+4, and so on. For which numbers 1 to 25 is it possible to do this? I incorrectly concluded that there were no…
Month: September 2012
Sums of Consecutive Positive Integers
Edit: The bit about the larger prime numbers was due to an error in my VBA programming, but it lead to a better understanding of the problem. Don’t take this article as “final”, is the point. This week’s puzzle in my Mathematics Reasoning class: Try to express positive integers in terms of the sum of…