...reader assume all responsibility for safety and use not in accordance with the above stated purposes. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives; Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits; Kits, cats, sacks and...

...Saint Ives I met a man with seven wives; each wife had seven sacks; each sack had seven cats; each cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, how many were going to Saint Ives? John Henry Newman's hymn is in the same form: Praise to the Holiest in the height...

...forerunner and perhaps the origin of the familiar related nursery rhyme: As I was going to St. Ivés, I met a man with seven wives; Every wife had seven...kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ivés? 7—» 72— » '3— » The Rhind Papyrus: Problem 79 hieratic script hieroglyphics...

...and Roman worlds, and Egyptian-style prmiitive mathematics are reflected in such archaic ditties as 'As I was going to St Ives I met a man with seven wives', etc. Granted the technology of the ancient world, and certainly granted the technology the Egyptians...

...nearly 3000 years later by Fibonacci, and also is implicit in the trick question of a children's rhyme: As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven...cats, Every cat had seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks, wives — How many were going to St. Ives? I trust you know the correct answer, but perhaps were fooled...

...Saint Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Ev'ry wife had seven sacks Ev'ry sack had seven cats Ev'ry cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks and wives, How many were going to Saint Ives? It is worth observing that problem 79 in the Rhind Papyrus also deals with groupings...

...familiar Mother Goose rhyme, which in its essence goes back to Ancient Egypt:4 "As I was going to Saint Ives, I met a man with seven wives; Every wife had...seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks and wives, How many were going to Saint Ives?" is: 2 + 7 + 72 + 73 + 74. Only in the monastic ciphers, here modified to base...

...very closely resembles the above papyrus problem: As I was going to St. Ivés I met a man with se\en wives. Every wife had seven sacks. Every sack had...Kits, cats, sacks, and wives. How many were there going to St. Ivés? 3. The American mathematician Edward Kasner once asked his young nephew to make...

...to St. Ivés I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits; Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ivés? -Nursery riddle, 1730 ser I: arrange, interlace, join together, compose. L, series,...

...to St. Ivcs I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives? — English 215 Riddlum, riddlum, raddy, All head and no body. — American 216...