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Today I was just chilling in school but for some reason I felt smart so I decided to derive a formula for (a+b)^3. This I failed at, but in the process I found an even more interesting pattern.
Here it is :
where n is the number of whole numbers present between a and b +1
If a≠b and b > a
(a+b)^3 = [[{b*(a+b)}^2] - [{a*(a+b)}^2]]/n
If a≠b and a > b
(a+b)^3 = [[{a*(a+b)}^2] - [{b*(a+b)}^2]]/n
Here is how you would write it in paper :
unfortunately, this doesn't work when a = b, but I find it fascinating how the difference of squares of two different numbers (divided by n) can result in the cube of another number. Math is fascinating