
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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Brown lives on a street with more than 20 but fewer than 500 houses (all houses are numbered sequentially: $1, 2, 3$, etc.). Brown discovered that the sum of all the numbers from the first house to his own house (inclusive) equals half the sum of all the numbers from the first to the last house (inclusive).

What is the number of his house?

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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