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Recursion java programming

How do I write a method that calculates the sum of the integers between 1 and n? I thought of using n + sum (n-1), but I need to use the recursive definition that the sum of 1 to n is the sum of 1 to n/2 plus the sum of (n/2+1) to n.  

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