Holiday Silliness
Today I stumbled across the Christmas Price Index. For just under 19K you too can have lords and partridges and more. Fortunately all we need to acquire is ( 8! + 8 ) candles for the holidays 
Today I stumbled across the Christmas Price Index. For just under 19K you too can have lords and partridges and more. Fortunately all we need to acquire is ( 8! + 8 ) candles for the holidays
December 14th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
thats a lot of candles. how many menorahs you lighting? by my calculations, you can light 916, with a few candles to spare. i think you want Sigma (x) with x from 1 to 8 + 8. though i understand how thats a lot harder to represent in a blog
December 14th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
Yes, I should have done n(n+1)/2 since I don’t have LaTEX support