Hi, I am a student at Park City High School and I am doing a math project on Gauss. I was just wondering if you could help me out with one of his formulas? We need to find his formula for adding all of the numbers from 1 to 100. If you know where I can find this would you please answer me back A.S.A.P.
Thank you for your time.
Shannon
FOLLOW-UP:
Shannon,
Wow... this is one very popular question, I didn't post it on the Formulae page because he wasn't the first to find it. I might reconsider now, or at least use your e-mail on the commentary... hmmm....
Anyways, I have your answer on the biography section. The image that you want is here:
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/2977/gauss/sumans.jpg
The variable 'n' is 'number.' In this case, it would be 100.
Sincerely,
Nelly "Nez" Cung
NOTE For a better a full discription, go here.
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