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Grade 6SuperchallengeNegative Numbers

Negative Numbers · Superchallenge problem

A list of numbers starts 3, −53,\ -5. After that, each number equals the number just before it minus the number two places before it. (So the third number is −5−3=−8-5-3=-8.) What is the sum of the first 100100 numbers in the list?