Keith. I would like to say congratulations for coming using the lock down so well.

I took my time to follow through your work and quickly realized something about
your finding

The following were my findings

1. Each of the row is arithmetic progression

2. Each of the column is an arithmetic progressions

That prompted me to start testing different series as below

2 7 12 17 22 27
11 16 21 26 31 36
20 25 30 35 40 45
29 34 39 44 49 54
What I have generated is and arithmetic progression in which

 each row is has a common difference of 5

 each column has a common difference of 9

To generate the sum of these numbers I noticed that we can easily apply your
formula

But maybe later on I will introduce new terms for now let us use your formula
1
∑= (𝑛 + 𝑛1 )(𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑒)
2 𝐿
1
= (54 + 2)(6 × 4)
2
= 672

Indeed that is the sum of those numbers

I have noticed that in general, the sum of such numbers that form series of the form

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 𝑎 (𝑎 + 𝑑1 ) (𝑎 + 2𝑑1 ) … (𝑎 + (𝑛1 − 1)𝑑1

𝑎 + 𝑑2 (𝑎 + 𝑑1 + 𝑑2 ) (𝑎 + 2𝑑1 + 𝑑2 ) … (𝑎 + (𝑛1 − 1)𝑑1 + 𝑑2)

. .
. .
. .
(𝑎 + (𝑛2 − 1)𝑑2 ) (𝑎 + (𝑛2 − 1)𝑑2
+𝑑1 )
. .
. .
. .
(𝑎 + (𝑛2 − 1)𝑑2 … (𝑎 + (𝑛2 − 1)𝑑2
+2𝑑1 ) + (𝑛1 − 1)𝑑1 )

Where 𝒅𝟏 is the common difference in the rows 𝒏𝟏 is the number of columns (or
number of terms in a row)

And 𝒅𝟐 is the common difference in each column 𝒏𝟐 is the number of rows (or
number of terms in a column)

The sum of that of all terms in the 𝒏𝟏 × 𝒏𝟐 numbers is given by

1
∑ = (𝑎 + 𝑎 + (𝑛2 − 1)𝑑2 + (𝑛1 − 1)𝑑1 ) × (𝑛1 × 𝑛2 )
2

Notice that the red term is what you called 𝒏𝟏 and the green term is what you called
𝒏𝑳

Hence our general formula would be

𝟏
∑ = (𝟐𝒂 + (𝒏𝟐 − 𝟏)𝒅𝟐 + (𝒏𝟏 − 𝟏)𝒅𝟏 ) × (𝒏𝟏 × 𝒏𝟐 )
𝟐
Applying the formula to the earlier series

𝒂 = 𝟐, 𝒏𝟏 = 𝟔, 𝒏𝟐 = 𝟒, 𝒅𝟏 = 𝟓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝟐 = 𝟗
𝟏
∑ = (𝟐 × 𝟐 + (𝟒 − 𝟏)𝟗 + (𝟔 − 𝟏)𝟓) × (𝟔 × 𝟓)
𝟐
= 𝟔𝟕𝟐 𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒

Go ahead with research. I am trying out how to deal with series in geometric
and mixed A.P and G.P

Thanks to corona. Together we are thinking outside the box

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