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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
The story about him being asked to sum all of the numbers from 1 to 1000 and finding a shortcut as a child is probably as fake as the one about George Washington and the cherry tree. But, I still like it and it is a part of Mathematics Culture, it's one of our parables that illustrates the values of the community.
So, I still tell it with that caveat and the hope that it will inspire young people to look for ways to avoid drudgery.