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(n.) 1. an astonishing breakthrough (especially one remarkable for its simplicity ... at least in retrospect). 2. A novel solution (i.e., thinking outside the box). 3. A child prodigy. (from the (possibly apocryphal) story about prodigy methematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, whose math teacher tried to occupy his students by having them add up the integers 1 through 100. The story goes that the teacher had barely sat down after giving the assignment when little master Gauss approached with the correct answer on his slate: 5,050. when his astonished teacher asked how he had arrived at the correct solution so quickly, Gauss pointed out that 1+100=101, 2+99=101, 3+98=101, and so on until 50+51=101. Since there were 50 of these 101s, Gauss pointed out, the answer must be 50x101=5050. Gauss went on to write his magnum opus, the Disquisitiones Arithmeticae when he was only 21.)
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"I see from the budget that we've managed to save tens of thousands on covers for the jet intakes. How did we do that?" "Well, one of the engineers saw that a $35 inflatable wading pool covered the intakes just as well as a $5,000 jet cover." "Wow,...that's real 5050: I'm impressed." | Mozart was a 5050. |
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