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?
Mathematics has beauties of its own. - J.W.A. Young
Obvious: The most dangerous word in mathematics - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Pedestrian: a man whose son is home from college. - Unknown
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries. - David Hilbert
Most every dental school has discount dental services. - Matthew Lesko
I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know. - Bill Watterson
Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone. - Henry Smith
I am an expert in Higher Level Math: You + God = Enough - Zig Ziglar
Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles. - Maya Lin
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain
Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis. - Robert Heilbroner
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. - Ed Gillespie
Law school is the opposite of sex. Even when it's good it's lousy. - Unknown
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them. - John von Neumann
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. - Edward Gibbon
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. - Albert Einstein
I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math. - Tina Fey
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein
It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy. - Alfred Renyi
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. - Kurt Vonnegut
You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart. - Harvey Mackay
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. - Abe Lemons
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 most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it. - James Newman
There are advantages to being President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. - Ronald Reagan
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. - Jack Nicholson
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
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
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
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. - Michael Dell
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
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. - Bertrand Russell
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
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
Mushroom: 1. A motel for quickies; 2. The place where they store the school food; 3. A room that has no sides, no walls, no doors and no ceilings. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
If it's green, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it has numbers, it's math. If it doesn't work, it's technology. - Unknown
Obvious: The most dangerous word in mathematics - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Pedestrian: a man whose son is home from college. - Unknown
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries. - David Hilbert
Most every dental school has discount dental services. - Matthew Lesko
I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know. - Bill Watterson
Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone. - Henry Smith
I am an expert in Higher Level Math: You + God = Enough - Zig Ziglar
Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles. - Maya Lin
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain
Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis. - Robert Heilbroner
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. - Ed Gillespie
Law school is the opposite of sex. Even when it's good it's lousy. - Unknown
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them. - John von Neumann
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. - Edward Gibbon
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. - Albert Einstein
I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math. - Tina Fey
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein
It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy. - Alfred Renyi
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. - Kurt Vonnegut
You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart. - Harvey Mackay
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. - Abe Lemons
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 most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it. - James Newman
There are advantages to being President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. - Ronald Reagan
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. - Jack Nicholson
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
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
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
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. - Michael Dell
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
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. - Bertrand Russell
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
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
Mushroom: 1. A motel for quickies; 2. The place where they store the school food; 3. A room that has no sides, no walls, no doors and no ceilings. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
If it's green, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it has numbers, it's math. If it doesn't work, it's technology. - Unknown
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