" What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and
one and one and one and one?"
" I don't know" said Alice. "I lost count."
"She can't do addition." said the Red Queen.
-Lewis Carrol (Through the looking glass)
Prof : How much is 7 x 24?
Student : It's 168.
Prof : Prove it.
Student : 16 +8 = 24.
Prof : and 7 x 27?
Student : 189, proof 18 +9 = 27.
Prof : and 7 x 21?
Student : 147, proof 14 +7 = 21.
Prof : and 7 x 18?
Student : 126, proof 12 +6 = 18.
Q : Divide 14 sugar cubes into 3 cups of coffee so that each cup has an
odd number of sugar cubes.
A : 1, 1, 12
Riposte : 12 isn't odd!
A : It's an odd number of cubes to put in a cup of coffee! (groan)
Complete the next two terms of this sequence:
O, T, T, F, F, S, S, E,....
(Answer: N, T -Nine, Ten)
Likewise here:
3 3 5 4 4 3 5 5
(Answer: 4 3 -number of letters in the words "Nine" and "Ten")
Theorem : A cat has nine tails.
Proof : No cat has eight tails. A cat has one more tail than no cat. Therefore,
a cat has nine tails.
Mathematics is made up of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs and 50 percent imagination.
A child defined infinity as the place where things happen that shouldn't.