Tetrahedral number

A tetrahedral number, or triangular pyramidal number, is a figurate number that represents a pyramid with a triangular base and three sides, called a tetrahedron. The $n$ th tetrahedral number, $Te n$ , is the sum of the first $n$ triangular numbers, that is,

Te_{n}=\sum _{k=1}^{n}T_{k}=\sum _{k=1}^{n}{\frac {k(k+1)}{2}}=\sum _{k=1}^{n}\left(\sum _{i=1}^{k}i\right)

The tetrahedral numbers are:

1, 4, 10, 20, 35, 56, 84, 120, 165, 220, ... (sequence A000292 in the OEIS)

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