On 07/10/2018 02:47 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Hi Todd!
On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 02:02:45 -0700
ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All,
Remembering from my school days, a famous mathematician
whose name I forget came up with a formula as a kid
that made math history.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_progression . They tell this story
about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss - see
http://www.coolmath.com/algebra/19-sequences-series/06-gauss-problem-arithmetic-series-01
,
but the formula for that predates him by many centuries.
"The" gauss! I was an RF (Radio Frequency) Design Engineer
before becoming a computer consultant (couldn't find work
in RF Design after the end of the cold war with all the
outsourcing that occurred). "Gauss" was a real big deal.
