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.
As it transpires, when in school, they disciplined him by
making his count all the number from 1 to some large
number. It took him only a few minutes. The
Hi!
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 02:02:45AM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> Remembering from my school days, a famous mathematician
> whose name I forget came up with a formula as a kid
> that made math history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss
greetings,
domm
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Hi Todd!
On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 02:02:45 -0700
ToddAndMargo 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 sto
On Tuesday, July 10, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> $ echo "5" | p6 'my $N=slurp(); say $N*($N+1)/2;'
> 15
>
> $ echo "6" | p6 'my $N=slurp(); say $N*($N+1)/2;'
> 21
>
> $ echo "100" | p6 'my $N=slurp(); say $N*($N+1)/2;'
> 5050
Another cool thing is that this formula is used
in Perl 6 under the hood to
On 07/10/2018 02:47 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Hi Todd!
On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 02:02:45 -0700
ToddAndMargo 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/Arithmet
On 07/10/2018 03:42 AM, Brian Duggan wrote:
On Tuesday, July 10, ToddAndMargo wrote:
$ echo "5" | p6 'my $N=slurp(); say $N*($N+1)/2;'
15
$ echo "6" | p6 'my $N=slurp(); say $N*($N+1)/2;'
21
$ echo "100" | p6 'my $N=slurp(); say $N*($N+1)/2;'
5050
Another cool thing is that this formula is u
Your saying "count all the number" is confusing and doesn't seem to relate to
what follows. Did you mean to say "sum all the number"? -- Darren Duncan
On 2018-07-10 2:02 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
Hi All,
Remembering from my school days, a famous mathematician
whose name I forget came up with a
On 2018-07-10 2:02 AM, ToddAndMargo 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.
As it transpires, when in school, they disciplined him by
making his count all the number from 1 to some large
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