In the sequence 20, 18, 2, 20, −18, ... the first two terms and are 20 and 18 respectively. The third term is found by subtracting the second from the first, . The fourth is the sum of the two preceding elements, . Then , , and so on.
What is the sum of the first 2018 terms of this sequence?
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