From 57bfba51aa81e1472e4f4d3d44591f2b1f38657d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "exercism-solutions-syncer[bot]"
 <211797793+exercism-solutions-syncer[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:50:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [Sync Iteration] go/difference-of-squares/1

---
 .../1/difference_of_squares.go                | 31 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 solutions/go/difference-of-squares/1/difference_of_squares.go

diff --git a/solutions/go/difference-of-squares/1/difference_of_squares.go b/solutions/go/difference-of-squares/1/difference_of_squares.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fe57a8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solutions/go/difference-of-squares/1/difference_of_squares.go
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package differenceofsquares
+
+func exponent(base int, power int) int {
+	result := 1
+	for range power {
+		result *= base
+	}
+	return base
+}
+
+func SquareOfSum(n int) int {
+	sum := 0
+	for n > 0 {
+		sum += n
+		n--
+	}
+	return exponent(sum, 2)
+}
+
+func SumOfSquares(n int) int {
+	sum := 0
+	for n > 0 {
+		sum += exponent(n, 2)
+		n--
+	}
+	return sum
+}
+
+func Difference(n int) int {
+	return SquareOfSum(n) - SumOfSquares(n)
+}