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A simple one: Let’s say you want to sum the numbers from 1 to 100. You could make the sum normally (1+2+3…) or you can rearrange the numbers in pairs: 1+100, 2+99, 3+98… until 50+51 (50 pairs). So you will have 50 pairs and all of them sum 101 -> 101*50= 5050. There’s a story who says that this method was discovered by Gauss when he was still a child in elementary school and their teacher asked their students to sum the numbers.
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