Gauss is the last name of one the most famous mathematicians in human history Carl Gauss, a genius, who is often called the “King of mathematics”. Here’s what Wikipedia
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A famous anecdote about Gauss describes how in his earliest school years he found a way to sum numbers 1 through 100 in just a few seconds, noticing that 1+99 = 2+98 = ... = 49+51 = 100.