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Sum of the page numbers (Posted on 2018-11-05)

What is the sum of the page numbers of the middle two pages
in a book with k pages?

See The Solution Submitted by Ady TZIDON

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re(2): Not so simple (spoiler)

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(In reply to re: Not so simple (spoiler) by Charlie)

My intention was to make the solver understand that :

i. k cannot be 1

ii. there are 2 different evaluations for even k and odd k.

SH explanation makes it so simple!

Posted by Ady TZIDON on 2018-11-05 10:41:43

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