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At the age of seven, Carl Friedrich Gauss started elementary school, and his potential was noticed almost immediately. His teacher, Büttner, and his assistant, Martin Bartels, were amazed when Gauss summed the integers from 1 to 100 instantly by spotting that the sum was 50 pairs of numbers each pair summing to 101.

It seems that 1 to 100 is the most common version, but 1 to 1000 is also used as well as other sequences:

It seems that 1 to 100 is the most common version, but 1 to 1000 is also used as well as other sequences: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/gausss-day-of-reckoning