Editorial for Sum Square Difference

Problem of the Week 2a_2020

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The problem suggests that you find the difference between the square of sum and the sum of squares of the first 100 natural numbers. That is, (1+2+…100)² -(1² + 2² + … + 100²) . Since 100 is very small, you can solve this problem by simply running a loop from 1 to 100 and then computing the sums as you loop. Below is the implementation in Python 3:

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