Problem
1986 AIME Problem 6
The pages of a book are numbered 1 through n. When the page numbers of the book were added, one of the page numbers was mistakenly added twice, resulting in an incorrect sum of 1986. What was the number of the page that was added twice?
Leading zeroes must be inputted, so if your answer is 34, then input 034
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