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100

WHILE HIS CLASSMATES STRUGGLED WITH AN ADDITION PROBLEM, GAUSS SIMPLY WROTE THIS NUMBER DOWN, SHOCKING HIS TEACHER

5050 (1+2+3+...+100)

300

NAME THE PERSON FAMOUS FOR DEVELOPING CALCULUS INDEPENDENTLY—BUT AT THE SAME TIME—AS NEWTON

Leibniz

400

THIS STATE ALMOST LEGALLY DEFINED PI TO BE EQUAL TO 3.2

Indiana

500

THIS PRESIDENT PROVED THE PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM IN A UNIQUE WAY

James Garfield