<human>:  Could Carl Friedrich Gauss speak to someone 100 miles away?
<bot>: No, Carl Friedrich Gauss, a German mathematician and physicist, could not speak to someone 100 miles away. Carl Friedrich Gauss was born in 1777. Speaking to someone 100 miles away requires a telephone. The telephone was invented in 1876. So Carl Friedrich Gauss could not speak to someone 100 miles away.