---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
It took me only a couple of seconds, so curious, I asked six-year-old Maya, and she got it just as quickly. I spent five minutes trying to divide each number by it's square root to see which negative delineation of recurring subtractions could account for such a large and apparently random spread of variations. Should have imagined myself parking a car.... "Be as little children" as Buddha said. Might have been someone else though. From: "s3raphita@... [FairfieldLife]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 1:08 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Are you smarter than a (Hong Kong) six year old? No - I'm not smarter than a Hong Kong six year old. The answer (which I discovered via Google) is that we're looking at the numbers upside down. The car drivers would see them as 86 87 88 89 90 91. Geddit? Kids haven't yet had their lateral-thinking ability "educated" out of them. ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote : https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206164260000546&set=a.4017899240941.167957.1085166593&type=1
