As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Every cat had seven kits— Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives? Mother Goose's Melodies, Or, Songs for the Nursery - Seite 61878 - 186 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| C.C. Gaither, Alma E Cavazos-Gaither - 1998 - 506 Seiten
...Arithmeticus Virginia, Nevada I don't know. Sketches Old and New Answers to Correspondents 'i Unknown As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven...kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives? Source unknown Wittgenstein, Ludwig The process of calculating brings about just... | |
| William Carroll - 1998 - 620 Seiten
...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... | |
| David W. Rollason, Margaret Harvey, Michael Prestwich - 1998 - 552 Seiten
...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... | |
| Brendan Kelly - 2000 - 100 Seiten
...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... | |
| Paul Johnson - 1999 - 276 Seiten
...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... | |
| Bryan Bunch, Bryan H. Bunch - 2001 - 414 Seiten
...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... | |
| Midhat J. Gazalé - 2000 - 340 Seiten
...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... | |
| David A. King - 2001 - 518 Seiten
...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... | |
| Thomas Koshy - 2002 - 748 Seiten
...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...sacks, and wives. How many were there going to St. Ivés? 3. The American mathematician Edward Kasner once asked his young nephew to make up a name for... | |
| Phil Cousineau - 2001 - 202 Seiten
...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... | |
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