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Ponder This Challenge - November 2026 - The SumSum

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Given a finite sequence of length N N N , a 0 , a 1 , a 2 , … , a N − 1 a_0,a_1, a_2,\ldots,a_{N-1} a 0 , a 1 , a 2 , … , a N − 1 , let's first remove the sequence's first element.

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