An identity communicated to Feynman as a child by a boy named Morrie Jacobs (Gleick 1992, p. 47). Feynman remembered this fact all his life and referred to it in a letter to Jacobs in 1987 (Gleick 1992, p. 450). It is a special case of the general identity
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and 450, 1992.