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?
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Revolutions never occur in mathematics. - Michael Crowe
I graduated first in my class from alibi school. - Jeffrey McDaniel
Pedestrian: a man whose son is home from college. - Unknown
I've won at every level, except college and pro. - Shaquille O'Neal
Dear Math: I'm not a therapist. Solve your own problems. - Unknown
"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. - Eric T. Bell
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Francis Bacon
Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas. - James Roy Newman
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school. - Adlai Stevenson
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. - E.C. Titchmarsh
Life is good for only two things: discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics. - Simeon Poisson
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. - Woody Allen
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. - Roger Bacon
Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. - Alfred Whitehead
When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis. - Elvis Presley
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. - David Hilbert
There are 3 kinds of people in this world: those who are good at math, and those who aren't. - Unknown
It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero
If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. - Sargent Shriver
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown
I had a feeling once about mathematics – that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go. - Winston Churchill
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. - Charles Peirce
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. - George Burns
What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life? - Lynette Mather
Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true. - Bertrand Russell
You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy. - Garrison Keillor
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
Understand the key factors in the math behind viral marketing, and use those to figure out what it takes to get viral growth. - David Skok
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. - Howard Eves
I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at four in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. - George Foreman
The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal
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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
When I finished school, I took one of those career-aptitude tests, and based on my verbal ability score, they suggested I become a mime. - Tim Cavanagh
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 began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. - Maria G. Mayer
Revolutions never occur in mathematics. - Michael Crowe
I graduated first in my class from alibi school. - Jeffrey McDaniel
Pedestrian: a man whose son is home from college. - Unknown
I've won at every level, except college and pro. - Shaquille O'Neal
Dear Math: I'm not a therapist. Solve your own problems. - Unknown
"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. - Eric T. Bell
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Francis Bacon
Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas. - James Roy Newman
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school. - Adlai Stevenson
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. - E.C. Titchmarsh
Life is good for only two things: discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics. - Simeon Poisson
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. - Woody Allen
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. - Roger Bacon
Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. - Alfred Whitehead
When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis. - Elvis Presley
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. - David Hilbert
There are 3 kinds of people in this world: those who are good at math, and those who aren't. - Unknown
It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero
If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. - Sargent Shriver
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown
I had a feeling once about mathematics – that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go. - Winston Churchill
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. - Charles Peirce
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. - George Burns
What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life? - Lynette Mather
Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true. - Bertrand Russell
You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy. - Garrison Keillor
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
Understand the key factors in the math behind viral marketing, and use those to figure out what it takes to get viral growth. - David Skok
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. - Howard Eves
I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at four in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. - George Foreman
The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal
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
When I finished school, I took one of those career-aptitude tests, and based on my verbal ability score, they suggested I become a mime. - Tim Cavanagh
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 began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. - Maria G. Mayer
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