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Henrietta "Oww..owww...Oh Miss! I think you can stop now. OldSlave has just EXCELLED himself and come up with the answer."
Miss "What! Let me see now. Hmmmm..very well then. You young ladies are very fortunate but...I'm giving you one more Henrietta for such an awful pun."
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old slave said:
Actually, I got an Excel formula to write the numbers from 1 to 100, then SUMed them.

(I had forgotten your mathematical construct, melissa, though when I saw the answer I knew there was one)
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The story I heard in my schooldays was that back in 1784 a primary teacher gave her class the problem of adding up all the numbers from 1 to 100 while she got on with some paperwork. All the kids began the laborious task of 1+2+3+....But after a few minutes one seven year old put up his hand and gave the answer of 5050. The teacher asked him how he did it and he explained that he added up the numbers in pairs..so..
1+100=101
2+99=101
3+98=101.....Then he realized that he would have 50 pairs each adding up to 101 so the total must be 50x101=5050. His name was Carl Friedrich Gauss. There are many variations on this story but if he'd have been in my class I would have said "OK, little smart ass now go away and add up the first fifty square numbers."
 
melissa said:
The story I heard in my schooldays was that back in 1784 a primary teacher gave her class the problem of adding up all the numbers from 1 to 100 while she got on with some paperwork. All the kids began the laborious task of 1+2+3+....But after a few minutes one seven year old put up his hand and gave the answer of 5050. The teacher asked him how he did it and he explained that he added up the numbers in pairs..so..
1+100=101
2+99=101
3+98=101.....Then he realized that he would have 50 pairs each adding up to 101 so the total must be 50x101=5050. His name was Carl Friedrich Gauss. There are many variations on this story but if he'd have been in my class I would have said "OK, little smart ass now go away and add up the first fifty square numbers."
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in all honesty, that (how to find the sum of a series of numbers from 1 to x) is something I worked out for myself when I was at school and spending serious time on maths. But clearly I didn't keep it up to Gauss's standard - nor did I have a teacher like you, Mel! :devil:
 
Eulalia said:
in all honesty, that (how to find the sum of a series of numbers from 1 to x) is something I worked out for myself when I was at school and spending serious time on maths. But clearly I didn't keep it up to Gauss's standard - nor did I have a teacher like you, Mel! :devil:
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You should never give up on using maths especially solving logic problems. In winter it's about the only exercise I get!
 
Eulalia said:
in all honesty, that (how to find the sum of a series of numbers from 1 to x) is something I worked out for myself when I was at school and spending serious time on maths. But clearly I didn't keep it up to Gauss's standard - nor did I have a teacher like you, Mel! :devil:
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melissa said:
You should never give up on using maths especially solving logic problems. In winter it's about the only exercise I get!
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As much as I marvel at your literacy and education - be warned that reading the wrong books can be dangerous!
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Baracus said:
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Don’t tell me @Barbaria1 is finally reading the small print! :eek:
 
melissa said:
You should never give up on using maths especially solving logic problems. In winter it's about the only exercise I get!
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I very much agree - you'd surprised that I did quite well in maths, and as part of my linguistic studies I took a course in formal logic, which I found very helpful in analysing how languages work - but I'm rusty with numbers now, more at home with words.

connoisseurs said:
As much as I marvel at your literacy and education - be warned that reading the wrong books can be dangerous!
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just like me! :D
 
twonines said:
Could counting the lashes be a good place to start?
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That thought occurred to me when I was writing about whipping, if the first stroke hurts x1, the second x2, the pain's already x3, then the third takes it up to x6 when I start screaming, the fourth to x10 when I'm starting to dance ... and so on!
 
connoisseurs said:
I need some help here! I have found this pic and it enamored me. It screams "Crux and Love".

Normaly I am not lost for words (though I often have problems to translate them in intelligible english :)), but I am looking at this pic and have no idea for a smart, classy description/comment.
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"My love for you is the cross on which I hang" she said.
 
Baracus said:
Barb,looking swell...(plus looking up,either @montycrusto Limericks,or the mathematical formulation)
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montycrusto said:
Don’t tell me @Barbaria1 is finally reading the small print! :eek:
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I am shocked. I thought Barb never read, she is more into exercise
connoisseurs said:
So I assume that´s not you in this pic?
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Barb in Minnesota Autumn - looking for her usual work
 
connoisseurs said:
I need some help here! I have found this pic and it enamored me. It screams "Crux and Love".

Normaly I am not lost for words (though I often have problems to translate them in intelligible english :)), but I am looking at this pic and have no idea for a smart, classy description/comment.
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You nailed my heart to the tree.
 
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