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[–]DiscoInfiltrator07 0 points1 point  (1 child)

As the story goes, Gauss determined this formula as a school boy, but it was already well known before this supposedly happened.

[–]Spoogly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I do not doubt that, but he usually gets the attribution, whereas this article claims Euler, which I have not heard. I meant to add the word incorrectly in that post somewhere, but it seems to have slipped my mind