Proof That The Difference of The Square of Two Odd Numbers is Divisible By 4

Any odd number can be written in the form  
\[2n+1\]
  where  
\[n\]
  is any number, so let two odd numbers be  
\[2n+1\]
  and  
\[2m+1\]
.
Then
\[\begin{equation} \begin{aligned} (2n+1)^2-(2m+1)^2 &= = (4n^2+4n+1) \\ &-(4m^1+4m+1) \\ &= 4n^2 +4n-4m^2-4m \\ &= 4(n^2+n-m^2-m)\end{aligned} \end{equation}\]

Proved.

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