Thread: Cool math shortcuts
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Old 05-12-2005, 07:37 PM
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Gauss came up with it when he was five.

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I wonder if this story is apocryphal or not. But at any rate, if this is the old Gauss learns his teacher good, he was ten, I believe.
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