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We develop new closed form representations of sums of reciprocal binomial coefficients. We also identify new integral and hypergeometric representation for the binomial-harmonic number sums.
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Sofo, A. Euler Related Binomial Sums. Indian J Pure Appl Math 50, 149–160 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13226-019-0313-z
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