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Special Numbers
Some sequences of numbers arise so often in mathematics that we recognize them instantly and give them special names. For example, everybody who learns arithmetic knows the sequence of square numbers 
1, 4, 9, 16, . . .
. In Chapter 1 we encountered the triangular numbers 1, 3, 6, 10, . . .; in Chapter 4 we studied the prime numbers ...
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