>>   Then there's the other extreme of people, who are really good at it.
>> Like that mathematician (I forget his name, but one of the famous ones)
>> who was in grade school and the teacher told the students to sum all the
>> numbers from 1 to 100, to keep them busy for at least half an hour, and
>> practice summation. This guy gives the correct in far less than a minute,
>> and the teacher is amazed.
> 
> That would be Gauss if I remember correctly.

Wikipedia concurs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss

Oh well, I got a famous mathematician who's name starts with the right 
letter! ;-)

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