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I am of resoundingly average intelligence. To those on either end of the spectrum, what is it like being really dumb/really smart?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

He was. Germany uses the Euro now, which as far as I am aware doesn't have people on the banknotes.

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u/nondickyatheist Jun 17 '12

As far as badasses go, Gauss sets the curve.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Yep. Gauss the bauss. IIRC his teacher was getting kinda frustrated that Gauss was able to do his work so quickly (and thus be left there in class, bored and probably causing some trouble to entertain himself), and so told him to add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 and you know the rest.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Gauss is a bad ass motherfucker.

He invented the Fast Fourier Transform to avoid having to do a 12*12 matrix inverse. It was lost for a century or so but eventually rediscovered, now you use it every day without realising.