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Carl Friedrich Gauss

In Our Time

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The Prodigy Proved, Without Without Doubt

On his fourteenth birthday, Marcus gauss was given a book of logarithm tables. He used them to work out how many primes there are in the world. But he also discovered that they can be divided into smaller numbers. This led him to discover why some prime numbers thin out as you get higher and higher on the scale.

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