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Identities on harmonic and q-harmonic number sums

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By partial fraction approach, we derive q-analog for several well known results on harmonic number sums.

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Mansour, T. Identities on harmonic and q-harmonic number sums. Afr. Mat. 23, 135–143 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13370-011-0023-0

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