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Euler’s pentagonal number theorem was a spectacular achievement at the time of its discovery, and is still considered to be a beautiful result in number theory and combinatorics. In this paper, we obtain three new finite generalizations of Euler’s pentagonal number theorem.
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Liu, JC. Some finite generalizations of Euler’s pentagonal number theorem. Czech Math J 67, 525–531 (2017). https://doi.org/10.21136/CMJ.2017.0063-16
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