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I remember learning this out of curiosity in the past, but math doesnt stick in my brain unless chemistry is used as a disguise. Where can I read about this method again? Will the wiki page on Gauss get me there efficiently enough?
you’ll either get there, or to the Boston Molasses Disaster, so you’ll learn something cool either way.
I know about this one! I think it was a Reactions video, which I believe is the American Chemical Society’s yt channel
Add the Numbers from 1 to 100 like a 5-Year-Old! The Story of Gauss | Minute Math
I found that pretty handy. Came across it looking for a Numberphile video on the subject. I was pretty sure I’d seen one before but didn’t have a lot of luck finding it.
Just wanted to say thanks! Clicking your link made me realize I should try to figure out how to open up YT on PipePipe automatically, so now my phone works better :)
No problem. I have a script that automates generating the title and link to a video when sharing automatically.
I should look into having it do the same for pipe
The sum of all natural numbers smaller than and including x is equal to
(x+1)(x/2)
The sum of all even numbers up to and including x is that minus (n/2)² so
[(x+1)(x/2)]-(x/2)²
That would mean the sum of all odd numbers under x is equal to
(x/2)²
or sum of all odd including x (if x is odd of course) is
[(x+1)/2]²
Since the sum of all even numbers up to x is the sum of all numbers minus the sum of all odd numbers.
[-(x/2)² +2x +1]/2 (another way of writing the sum of all evens under and including a number) looks suspiciously polynomial. I want to go further.
Edit:
Interestingly, the sum of all evens under and including x is larger than the sum of all odds under x by half of x. So
[(x+1)(x/2)-(x/2)²]-(x/2) = (x/2)²
So another formula for sum of all evens is
(x/2)²+(x/2)
So,
2[(x/2)²]+(x/2) = (x+1)(x/2)
The left is the sum of all odds plus the sum of all evens under and including x, the right is the original formula we started with, sum of all natural numbers under and including x. Since they both give us the total sum for all natural numbers up to and including x, the left hand side is a different formula giving us the same result!
(X+1)(x/2)
And what’s the big X here?
Typo
Alright smartgauss let’s see you do the same for all real numbers
IEEE 754 says Not a Number
0, because for every positive real number there’s a negative counterpart
There is a bit of a typo in it. Since the list of 100 numbers was split in half, it should be x50 not x100. 50 sets of 101 from each pair.
2S = 100 sets of 101
hence
S = 100/2 sets of 101 = 50 sets of 101 = 5050
I wondered about the same thing so did the Maths (which is kinda the point of the meme) back from 5050 and it all checks out.
Oh ok. Yeah fair. I guess I’m used to the simplified version. Where it doesn’t use the full list, just splits it in half. This method would also work for odd lists of numbers rather than only even. Makes sense.
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