Sum of all integers between two integers [closed]

Answer 1

You need this to get the sum:

ans = number1  + number2

Or is this not what you wanted to do? Since you commented: the numbers in between are 3,4,5, do you mean this?

>>> for i in range(number1+1,number2):
...     print i
... 
3
4
5

EDIT:
So, OP also needs sum of all numbers between two numbers:

>>> number1 = 2
>>> number2 = 6
>>> sum(range(number1 + 1, number2))
12

This second part given by OP.

Answer 2

I like Grijesh's answer, simple and elegant. Here is another take on it, using a recursive call:

global sum
def sum_between(a, b):
    global sum
    # base case
    if (a + 1) == b:
        return sum
    else:
        sum += (a + 1)
        return sum_between(a + 1, b)

Not as straight forward as using sum(range(a+1, b)). But simply interesting as an exercise in recursive functions.

Answer 3

Hint:

Given two numbers A and B (both inclusive) where B > A, the sum of values between A & B is given by

B(B + 1)/2 - (A - 1)A/2
=(B^2 + B - A^2 + A)/2
=((B - A)(B + A) + (B + A))/2
=(B + A)(B - A + 1)/2

If A & B are both exclusive, then replace B with B - 1 and A with A + 1. The rest I leave it for you as an exercise

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