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The current paper describes new presentations of the power sums and their extensions from polynomial to algebraic functions. Particularly, it shows that power sums of any higher order can be expressed just by a value of the arithmetic progression of the first power sum, or by the second power sum, or approximately by any another power sum. Regression modeling for the estimation of the powered sums is also considered, which is helpful for finding approximate values of long sums for big powers. 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