talk minus action = zero

Yesterday littlemeridian came to me and said she knew the sum of 1+2+3... etc to 100. She had figured out a way to solve the problem without adding all the numbers.
"I can bang out a perl program that can do the math," I said, not convinced she was right (she was right, btw). So we sat at my computer and I wrote this easy program that adds consecutive numbers up to a limit you specify from <STDIN>. It took us a little while to get the math right but we eventually got it.
( see the code )

Want to make $100 on the weekend of Feb. 8,9,10? Adrien and Matt want to have a weekend get-away. We’re looking for childcare from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon or evening.

• Stay at our house!
• Eat our food!
• Hang out with the greatest kids in the whole world!
• Bask in the glory of our new bathroom!
• Do your laundry in our giant laundry machines!
• Enjoy our DSL and wireless internet!

If you are interested, please get in touch with Matt or Adrien.