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How to Compute The Sum of Squares for First N Integers

Saliya Ekanayake
We need to find,
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answer 
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How to get that?
Let’s consider the expansion of clip_image002[9]
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Therefore,
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Now let’s substitute values for clip_image002[15]
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when
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when
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…
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when
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when
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if you sum them from top to bottom
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Taking the sum of arithmetic series,
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Therefore,
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Special thanks to my friend Jayampathi Rathnayake (http://www.math.indiana.edu/people/profile.phtml?id=jratnaya) for his insight on the approach.

Another good resource http://www.trans4mind.com/personal_development/mathematics/series/sumNaturalSquares.htm
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