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**Reincarnate** · 03-20-2013, 06:27 PM

You can also use

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulhaber%27s_formula

With the recursive definition for the Bernoulli numbers defined here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoul...ive_definition

But I mean it may as well just be this...

Code:

def brute(x,y):
    return sum(i**(x-1) for i in range(1,y))

03-20-2013, 06:27 PM	#25
Reincarnate x'); DROP TABLE FFR;-- Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 6,332	Re: This time not stupid math You can also use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulhaber%27s_formula With the recursive definition for the Bernoulli numbers defined here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoul...ive_definition But I mean it may as well just be this... Code: def brute(x,y): return sum(i*(x-1) for i in range(1,y)) Last edited by Reincarnate; 03-20-2013 at 06:35 PM..*