In how many ways can we express 1024 as the sum of two or more positive consecutive integers?
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Let us assume two consecutive numbers n, n+1 .On adding these two numbers we get an odd number and definitely not 1 0 2 4 .Similarly if we assume three consecutive numbers ,the sum will be 3n + 3 which is not equal to 1 0 2 4 for any positive integer 'n'.So by continuing the same process we can see that the sum of two or more positive integers will never be equal to 1 0 2 4 .