Thursday, April 16, 2009

Addition of Odd Consecutive Numbers

Did you ever notice that by playing with numbers we can generated some cool patterns. One such pattern is generation of a square number by adding any number of consecutive odd integers, starting with one. Below is the pattern..

1 + 3 = 4 = 22
1 + 3 + 5 = 9 = 32
1 + 3 + 5 + 7 = 16 = 42
1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 = 25 = 52
1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 11 = 36 = 62
1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 11 + 13 = 49 = 72
1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 11 + 13 + 15 = 64 = 82
1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 11 + 13 + 15 + 17 = 81 = 92
1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 11 + 13 + 15 + 17 + 19 = 100 = 102
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In general 1 + 3 + 5 + ........ + (2n-1)= n2, where n is a positive integer.

Is it not cool! if you have any such patterns that you can generate by playing with numbers, then do share.


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