Ethiopian
tribesmen can only double or halve numbers - by using pebbles as counters. By halving and
doubling, they take any two numbers, multiply them and come out with the right answer.
For example, if a tribesman wants to buy 13 sheep at 15 Ethiopian dollars each, here's how
he works it out...
Put 13 in a left column, and 15 in a right column. Halve the left figure - you get 6
1/2... ignore the 1/2 (Ethiopians don't know anything about fractions). Double the
right-hand figure. Keep this up until the left-hand figure is 1. You should now have:
13 15
6 30
3 60
1 120
Even numbers in the left column are evil to the superstitious tribesmen, and must be
destroyed - together with their guilty partners. So scratch out 6 and its partner 30. Now
add the right-hand column and you have the correct answer: 195. Try this with any two
numbers - it doesn't matter which side is halved or doubled - the answer is always right!
The Ethiopian's primitive mind simply cannot grasp how our system works. Of course you see
at once how this joe-k works... Or do you?
Everything is physics and math. - Katherine Johnson
Mathematics has beauties of its own. - J.W.A. Young
Mathematics: the only subject that counts. - Unknown
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries. - David Hilbert
I've won at every level, except college and pro. - Shaquille O'Neal
Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles. - Maya Lin
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go. - Bill Watterson
Dear Math: I'm not a therapist. Solve your own problems. - Unknown
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. - Mark Twain
I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance. - Donald Trump
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy. - Henry Brightman
Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years. - Bobby Knight
Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. - George Polya
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. - E.C. Titchmarsh
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. - Albert Einstein
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. - Woody Allen
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. - Robert M. Hutchins
I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability. - Jason Alexander
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein
If everybody in the world dropped out of school, we would have a much more intelligent society. - Jaden Smith
It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero
I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. - Kurt Vonnegut
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. - Charles Peirce
It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term. - Mark Twain
In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence. - Steven Wright
I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey. - Andy Roddick
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. - Robert Frost
Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. - Plato
I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me. - Keanu Reeves
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. - Howard Eves
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. - Rene Descartes
Doctors are saying that each piece of bacon you eat takes 9 minutes off of your life. Based on that math, I should have died in 1732. - Unknown
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - Albert Einstein
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. - Theodore Roosevelt
Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness where the explorers often get lost. - W.S. Anglin
I love to play hide and seek with my kid, but some days my goal is to find a hiding place where he can't find me until after high school. - Unknown
I was named the Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things. - Guillermo Diaz
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh. - Thomas Mann
Mathematics has beauties of its own. - J.W.A. Young
Mathematics: the only subject that counts. - Unknown
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries. - David Hilbert
I've won at every level, except college and pro. - Shaquille O'Neal
Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles. - Maya Lin
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go. - Bill Watterson
Dear Math: I'm not a therapist. Solve your own problems. - Unknown
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. - Mark Twain
I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance. - Donald Trump
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy. - Henry Brightman
Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years. - Bobby Knight
Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. - George Polya
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. - E.C. Titchmarsh
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. - Albert Einstein
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. - Woody Allen
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. - Robert M. Hutchins
I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability. - Jason Alexander
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein
If everybody in the world dropped out of school, we would have a much more intelligent society. - Jaden Smith
It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero
I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. - Kurt Vonnegut
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. - Charles Peirce
It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term. - Mark Twain
In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence. - Steven Wright
I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey. - Andy Roddick
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. - Robert Frost
Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. - Plato
I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me. - Keanu Reeves
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. - Howard Eves
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. - Rene Descartes
Doctors are saying that each piece of bacon you eat takes 9 minutes off of your life. Based on that math, I should have died in 1732. - Unknown
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - Albert Einstein
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. - Theodore Roosevelt
Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness where the explorers often get lost. - W.S. Anglin
I love to play hide and seek with my kid, but some days my goal is to find a hiding place where he can't find me until after high school. - Unknown
I was named the Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things. - Guillermo Diaz
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh. - Thomas Mann
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