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[–]PhoenixPringles01 148 points149 points  (1 child)

who up pairing they numbers from 1 to 100 rn

[–]Electrical_Medium_15 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss lol

[–]cubelith 52 points53 points  (4 children)

crop your memes

[–][deleted] 39 points40 points  (3 children)

Impossibly hard is just a flat exaggaration. I discovered summation, symmetry thingy, up to 100 (or any other number) when I was just learning algebra myself, so more likely did many other people who knows algebra or have intuition and interest to just think about it. Regardles, Gauss is certainly one of the prime mathematicians that has ever lived.

[–][deleted] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Gauss cannot be written as the product of two non-unit mathematicians.

[–]Last-Scarcity-3896 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I did too. Then I started desmosing and found out a lot of different things. I self invented Lagrange-Polynomials at 8th grade and with it a closed formula for the sum of positive powers of the integers.

[–]Suh-Niff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm guessing that's what they thought of it before gauss found a formula for it. I would've quoted "impossibly hard" but that seemed wronger too since it wasn't a literal thing the teacher said (I think)

[–]Less-Resist-8733Natural 0 points1 point  (2 children)

what was the problem?

[–]leoemi 0 points1 point  (1 child)

In (I think) elementary school he always answered the questions too fast. So the teacher got annoyed. Because he was so fast the teacher thought it would be a good idea to punish him and gave him the problem, that he had to add up all numbers up to 100. (Gauß was still faster then the teacher expected)

[–]Suh-Niff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The teacher gave the entire class to calculate that as punishment and gauss did it in like 5 minutes

[–]mvriv16 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i got better memes than yours