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Carl Friedrich Gauss

Eureka! · No. 2

The Boy Who Added 1 to 100 in Seconds

1부터 100까지 몇 초 만에 더한 소년

Carl Friedrich Gauss · 카를 프리드리히 가우스Brunswick, c. 1786

💡 The Idea

Gauss noticed that if you write the numbers 1 to 100 in a row, and then write them again in reverse underneath, every column adds up to the same total: 101.

📚 Grammar focus

Past Continuous vs Past Simple

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