一天下午，一些男孩在课堂上制造了很多噪音。老师生气了。
放学后，他把他们留在教室里。他告诉他们把从1到100的所有数字加在一起。孩子们拿出了他们的练习本。除了一个男孩外，所有人都开始把数字写下来。
这个男孩是新来的。他向窗外望了几分钟。然后他在练习本上写了一个数字，并举起了手。 我可以回家吗，先生？他问道。我现在知道答案了。老师和其他男孩都很惊讶。拿过来。老师说。男孩把它交给了老师。答案是对的，所以老师只好让这个男孩回家。
第二天早上，老师问男孩：你怎么这么快就找到答案了？嗯，先生，他说，我不想在这里呆太久。于是我尽了最大的努力快速找到答案。很快就找到了。你看，如果你把100加1，你得到101，99加2就是101。98和3也是101，当你计算到51和50时，你有50次101 。那是5050。
在这之后，当老师给班上布置练习去做时，他给这个男孩不同的练习。这个男孩的名字叫卡尔·高斯。长大后，他成了一位伟大的科学家。
THE STORY OF LITTLE GAUSS
One afternoon some boys made a lot of noise in class. The teacher got angry.
He kept them in the classroom after school. He told them to add all the numbers from 1 to 100 together. The boys took out their exercise-books. All of them began to write the numbers down except one boy.
He was new in the school. He looked out of the window for a few minutes. Then he wrote a number in his exercise-book and put up his hand. May I go home, sir? he asked. I know the answer now. The teacher and the other boys were very surprised. Bring it here. said the teacher. The boy took it to the teacher. The answer was right, so the teacher had to let the boy go home.
The next morning, the teacher asked the boy, How did you find the answer so quickly? Well, sir, he said, I didn’t want to stay here long. So I tried my best to find the answer quickly. Soon I found it. You see, if you add 100 to 1, you get 101, and 99 and 2 is 101. 98 and 3 is 101 too, and when you reach 51 and 50, you have 101 fifty times. That is 5050.
After this, when the teacher gave the class exercises to do, he gave this boy different exercises. The boy’s name was Karl F. Gauss. When he grew up, he became a great scientist.
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