stackyFACTSWhen astronomers completely lost track of a newly spotted dwarf planet, Carl Friedrich Gauss smugly stepped in to locate it. He invented a massive statistical method to calculate its precise orbital path from just a few sparse data points. He essentially found a needle in a cosmic haystack using pure mathematical spite.
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