
Episode #84 - History of Physics | Hawking & Gauss
Math & Physics Podcast
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How to Correct a Math Error
When gaus was in school, a punishment that the teacher would make the kids do when they did something stupid would be to add up the numbers from one to 100. But gaus was smarter than that. He was like, weight a hundred numbers. That's an even number of numbers. What happens if i split down the middle, right at forty nine between 40 9 and 50? I came up with that answer in like, three point two seconds. And the teacher was like, wow. You broke my punishment by being so big brainedco e just, and now it's a formula. If you want to add up a numbers, just integers from one to anything,. It's
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