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  2. 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 - 3 + 4 + ... - Wikipedia

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    Sum of Natural Numbers (second proof and extra footage) includes demonstration of Euler's method. What do we get if we sum all the natural numbers? response to comments about video by Tony Padilla; Related article from New York Times; Why –1/12 is a gold nugget follow-up Numberphile video with Edward Frenkel

  3. Summation - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, summation is the addition of a sequence of numbers, called addends or summands; the result is their sum or total.Beside numbers, other types of values can be summed as well: functions, vectors, matrices, polynomials and, in general, elements of any type of mathematical objects on which an operation denoted "+" is defined.

  4. Proofs involving the addition of natural numbers - Wikipedia

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    We prove associativity by first fixing natural numbers a and b and applying induction on the natural number c. For the base case c = 0, (a + b) + 0 = a + b = a + (b + 0) Each equation follows by definition [A1]; the first with a + b, the second with b. Now, for the induction. We assume the induction hypothesis, namely we assume that for some ...

  5. Composition (combinatorics) - Wikipedia

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    For example the five compositions of 5 into distinct terms are: 5; 4 + 1; 3 + 2; 2 + 3; 1 + 4. Compare this with the three partitions of 5 into distinct terms: 5; 4 + 1; 3 + 2. Note that the ancient Sanskrit sages discovered many years before Fibonacci that the number of compositions of any natural number n as the sum of 1's and 2's is the nth ...

  6. Natural number - Wikipedia

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    Commutativity: for all natural numbers a and b, a + b = b + a and a × b = b × a. [54] Existence of identity elements: for every natural number a, a + 0 = a and a × 1 = a. If the natural numbers are taken as "excluding 0", and "starting at 1", then for every natural number a, a × 1 = a. However, the "existence of additive identity element ...

  7. Ramanujan summation - Wikipedia

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    Ramanujan summation is a technique invented by the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan for assigning a value to divergent infinite series.Although the Ramanujan summation of a divergent series is not a sum in the traditional sense, it has properties that make it mathematically useful in the study of divergent infinite series, for which conventional summation is undefined.

  8. List of mathematical functions - Wikipedia

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    Sigma function: Sums of powers of divisors of a given natural number. Euler's totient function: Number of numbers coprime to (and not bigger than) a given one. Prime-counting function: Number of primes less than or equal to a given number. Partition function: Order-independent count of ways to write a given positive integer as a sum of positive ...

  9. Digit sum - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the digit sum of a natural number in a given number base is the sum of all its digits. For example, the digit sum of the decimal number 9045 {\displaystyle 9045} would be 9 + 0 + 4 + 5 = 18. {\displaystyle 9+0+4+5=18.}