When Euler was that age, his class was given an exercise of summing numbers from 1 to 100.He got his hands slapped for coming up with the answer in seconds by being a little creative & noticing that 1+99 & 2+98 . . . 49+51 all add up to 100. So the answer is obviously 5050.
When Euler was that age, his class was given an exercise of summing numbers from 1 to 100.He got his hands slapped for coming up with the answer in seconds by being a little creative & noticing that 1+99 & 2+98 . . . 49+51 all add up to 100. So the answer is obviously 5050.