Our author Strogatz shows us something surprising about sums of consecutive counting numbers (integers), starting from 1. What is The sum of the first 6 consecutive integers? The sum of the first 7 consecutive integers? The sum of the first 2625 consecutive integers?

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Our author Strogatz shows us something surprising about sums of consecutive counting numbers (integers), starting from 1.

What is

  1. The sum of the first 6 consecutive integers?    
  2. The sum of the first 7 consecutive integers?    
  3. The sum of the first 2625 consecutive integers?    
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The sum of the first n consecutive integers starting from 1.

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