alleryStart learning →Which mathematician is said to have summed 1 to 100 by pairing ends at school?
AGauss
BFermat
CNewton
DEuler
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Correct answer: A. Gauss
The anecdote credits Carl Friedrich Gauss with finding the pairing method as a schoolboy.
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