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By Muaz Aqdas Many of you may know about the formula for the addition of  'n' Natural Numbers which is (n)(n+1)/2 . And if you don't, then let me tell you about it. So if you want to add consecutive Natural Numbers, then you would use the formula (n)(n+1)/2 where n is the number up to which you want to do addition. Let's take an example. I want to add all the natural numbers from 1 to 50, then here n would be 50, and the answer would be (50)(50+1)/2 which is 1275.  Now it got a little boring, so allow me to tell you a great story behind this small equation, an equation's story, all of you will find intriguing.       In the late 18th century there was math prodigy named Carl Friedrich Gauss who was faced with a tedious problem, the addition of numbers from 1 to 100. But the fascinating thing was he figured a way around it. He made an equation to add natural numbers from 1 to any no. by the person's choice. He saw a pattern, something humans are doing fro...