50 pairs.................2 twos......................and 101.......which is prime...........and the 1st one.........since 97..............the primes............all primes begin......2, 3...........one number apart........there is only one prime..................in the 90s......................the last double digit sequence...........beg like end..........end like beg..........full circle.........4 apart..........................four over the 1st number in triple digits........100......a gap of 4 over a 3...........one gap.........a garbled pi............


What is the sum of the first 100 whole numbers? Gauss noticed that if he was to split the numbers into two groups (1 to 50 and 51 to 100), he could add them together vertically to get a sum of 101. Gauss realized then that his final total would be 50(101) = 5050.