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
Revolutions never occur in mathematics. - Michael Crowe
Mathematics: the only subject that counts. - Unknown
Pure mathematics is the poetry of logical ideas. - Albert Einstein
I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know. - Bill Watterson
Conflict Of Interest: A dental school with a hockey team - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain
Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis. - Robert Heilbroner
"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. - Eric T. Bell
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. - George Givot
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. - Mark Twain
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. - Ed Gillespie
Academe: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them. - John von Neumann
High school is a lot like toilet paper: you only miss it when it's gone. - Unknown
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. - Edward Gibbon
I'm not buying my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. - Yogi Berra
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. - Albert Einstein
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
When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award. - Jack Nicholson
I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math. - Tina Fey
There are 3 kinds of people in this world: those who are good at math, and those who aren't. - Unknown
Life on a farm is a school of patience. You can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. - Haneri Liogier
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. - Christopher Columbus
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. - Charles Peirce
In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence. - Steven Wright
The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it. - James Newman
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
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school. - Haruki Murakami
There are advantages to being President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. - Ronald Reagan
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. - Howard Eves
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
My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped box of laundry. - Milton Berle
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
Mathematics has beauties of its own. - J.W.A. Young
Revolutions never occur in mathematics. - Michael Crowe
Mathematics: the only subject that counts. - Unknown
Pure mathematics is the poetry of logical ideas. - Albert Einstein
I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know. - Bill Watterson
Conflict Of Interest: A dental school with a hockey team - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain
Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis. - Robert Heilbroner
"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. - Eric T. Bell
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. - George Givot
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. - Mark Twain
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. - Ed Gillespie
Academe: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them. - John von Neumann
High school is a lot like toilet paper: you only miss it when it's gone. - Unknown
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. - Edward Gibbon
I'm not buying my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. - Yogi Berra
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. - Albert Einstein
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
When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award. - Jack Nicholson
I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math. - Tina Fey
There are 3 kinds of people in this world: those who are good at math, and those who aren't. - Unknown
Life on a farm is a school of patience. You can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. - Haneri Liogier
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. - Christopher Columbus
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. - Charles Peirce
In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence. - Steven Wright
The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it. - James Newman
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
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school. - Haruki Murakami
There are advantages to being President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. - Ronald Reagan
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. - Howard Eves
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
My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped box of laundry. - Milton Berle
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
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