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bisby@lemmy.world 5 months agoI had the same reaction originally though, because I feel like I had seen this previously as just “bending” the list of 1-100 in half.
1+2+3+4+...+49+50 100+99+98+97+...+52+51 = 101+101+101+...
101 * 50.
So you have to do a bit more thinking to define your equation but the equation takes you straight to S instead of 2S.
And since the meme just has + …
instead of showing where the end of the list was, I see how one could easily mix up the 2 approaches.