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Give me a code to find sum of the series 1 and the other steps required given the following:
Find sum of the series 1 | Function to calculate sum.
when n is odd.
when n is not odd.
Driver code"
How can the above be solved in Python?
assistant
#Here is code to find sum of the series 1 and the other steps required.
 def solve_sum ( n ) :
	if ( n % 2 == 1 ) :
		return ( n + 1 ) / 2
	return - n / 2
n = 8
print ( int ( solve_sum ( n ) ) )