Behera and Panda [1] recently introduced a number sequence called balancing
numbers defined in the following way: A positive integer n is called a balancing
number with balancer r, if it is the solution of the Diophantine equation 1 +
2 + . . . + (n ? 1) = (n + 1) + (n + 2) + . . . + (n + r). They also proved that the
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recurrence relation for balancing numbers is