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Oh, dude, adding numbers from 1 to 500? That's like... easy math, man. You just use the formula for the sum of an arithmetic series: n/2 * (first number + last number). So, for this case, it's 500/2 * (1 + 500) = 250 * 501 = 125250. Boom, math wizard!

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The best trick for this is to think of averages. Put the 1 with 500, 2 with 499,, 3 with 488, ... On average these numbers are (1 + 500)/2 or 250.5 So you want to add up 500 numbers each of which is, on average 250.5 The answer is 500 x 250.5 which is 125250

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