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Re:Ramanujan Surprises Again (2015) by fingerlocks on Monday February 17, 2020 @05:02AM (#22346614)
When I heard this story it was about Gauss.

And I looked it up- Yes, the same possibly apocryphal story is on his Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss

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Re:Ramanujan Surprises Again (2015) by vidarh on Monday February 17, 2020 @05:50AM (#22346769)
Interesting. Not surprised this is the kind of story people might have adapted rather freely to sound more familiar to a local audience...
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