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| ARITHMETIC
SEQUENCE AND SERIES |
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The Gauss 10 year old
problem:
When Carl Frederick Gauss was ten years old his teacher,
Master Buttner, who loved to teach Latin but did not like
to teach mathematics asked
Gauss to find the sum of the first 100 counting numbers.
1
+ 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + . . . + 96 + 97 + 98 + 99 + 100
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