https://github.com/eddelbuettel/gaussfacts

The Greatest Mathematician since Antiquity
https://github.com/eddelbuettel/gaussfacts

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The Greatest Mathematician since Antiquity

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/gaussfacts
• Owner: eddelbuettel
• Created: 2016-06-18T01:21:25.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-01-16T03:59:31.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-13T12:14:13.473Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: cran, r, r-package
• Language: R
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• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: ChangeLog

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## gaussfacts: The Greatest Mathematician Since Antiquity

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### Motivation



This package displays randomly-chosen _facts_ about

[Carl Friedrich Gauss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss),

based on the collection curated by Mike Cavers via the

[gaussfacts](https://web.archive.org/web/*/gaussfacts.com) web site. Each call of `gaussfacts()`

displays another (randomly chosen) fact.

### Example

```{r}

R> library(gaussfacts)                  # load the package

R> set.seed(1)                          # so that this is predictable

R> gaussfact()

Gauss can shave with Occam's razor.

R>

```

### Package Status

Complete and functional, no dependencies, passes tests.

### Installation

The package is [on CRAN](https://cran.r-project.org/package=gaussfacts) and

can be installed via a standard

```{r}

R> install.packages("gaussfacts")

```

### Ports

A [Julia port](https://github.com/eliascarv/GaussFacts.jl) is available

thanks to [Elias Carvalho](https://github.com/eliascarv).

### Author

Dirk Eddelbuettel

### License

GPL (>= 2)