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
Revolutions never occur in mathematics. - Michael Crowe
College is a refuge from hasty judgment. - Robert Frost
Mathematics: the only subject that counts. - Unknown
Pure mathematics is the poetry of logical ideas. - Albert Einstein
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries. - David Hilbert
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
Math is like love - a simple idea but it can get complicated. - R. Drabek
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
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. - George Givot
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke
Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years. - Bobby Knight
College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. - George Gobel
Law school is the opposite of sex. Even when it's good it's lousy. - Unknown
High school is a lot like toilet paper: you only miss it when it's gone. - Unknown
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
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 was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award. - Jack Nicholson
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. - Robert M. Hutchins
When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis. - Elvis Presley
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. - David Hilbert
If everybody in the world dropped out of school, we would have a much more intelligent society. - Jaden Smith
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
Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. - Plato
Mathematics is indeed dangerous in that it absorbs students to such a degree that it dulls their senses to everything else. - Prinz zu Hohlenlohe-Ingelfingen Kraft
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
It is the studying you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows. - Henry L. Doherty
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
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
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. - Bertrand Russell
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
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
With the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital. - Stephen Covey
I was thrown out of college during my freshman year, for cheating on my metaphysics final - I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. - Woody Allen
Revolutions never occur in mathematics. - Michael Crowe
College is a refuge from hasty judgment. - Robert Frost
Mathematics: the only subject that counts. - Unknown
Pure mathematics is the poetry of logical ideas. - Albert Einstein
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries. - David Hilbert
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
Math is like love - a simple idea but it can get complicated. - R. Drabek
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
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. - George Givot
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke
Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years. - Bobby Knight
College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. - George Gobel
Law school is the opposite of sex. Even when it's good it's lousy. - Unknown
High school is a lot like toilet paper: you only miss it when it's gone. - Unknown
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
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 was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award. - Jack Nicholson
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. - Robert M. Hutchins
When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis. - Elvis Presley
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. - David Hilbert
If everybody in the world dropped out of school, we would have a much more intelligent society. - Jaden Smith
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
Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. - Plato
Mathematics is indeed dangerous in that it absorbs students to such a degree that it dulls their senses to everything else. - Prinz zu Hohlenlohe-Ingelfingen Kraft
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
It is the studying you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows. - Henry L. Doherty
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
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
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. - Bertrand Russell
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
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
With the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital. - Stephen Covey
I was thrown out of college during my freshman year, for cheating on my metaphysics final - I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. - Woody Allen
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