On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Roger Hui 
<[email protected]>wrote:
 > NB. I wanted to tell them the story of Gauss as a schoolboy
 > NB. summing the numbers from 1 to 100 in no time flat.

Was it John Von Neumann who asked "Why didn't Gauss just add the numbers 
up?"



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