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Many people. It was Gauss, apparently, who demonstrated the method of reversing the sequence and adding it to the original term by term.

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Q: Who worked out a way to add the numbers 1 to 100?
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The question was: Add up all the numbers up to 100.Der jungen Karl Friedrich didn't guess. He reasoned:100 + 1 = 10199 + 2 = 10198 + 3 = 10197 + 4 = 10196 + 5 = 101In this way, with the 100 numbers I can make 50 pairs, and every pair totals 101.So all 100 numbers add up to (50 times 101) = 5,050They say he was something like 5 years old at the time.


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