| Show A PRODIGY IN mathematics H glaze informs he recently found at fayetteville fayette mo a young man by the name of fields seventeen years old and entirely ignorant of letters or figures who could inside of three minutes I 1 solve any problem given the foi fol follows following lown iown g are a few rew of the examples and the time taken in the solution the number of flax seeds necessary ii ec essary to reach the sun allowing six flax seeds to one grain of wheat and thirteen grains of wheat to the inch an ADS given in two mJ minutes wha what t would amount to in ten years compounding interest at loc this example he worked in three minutes absolutely corr corn ct although be had to carry a score of decimal fractions what would a horse bring there being 52 nails in hla hia shoes allowing 3 cents for the first 6 for the second 8 27 81 and so on this required 32 distinct multiplications and ran up into trillions yet he did it in three minutes these examples will suffice to show his wonderful power he is very ignorant on all other matters having never learned his letters and does not know one figure from another he is very uncouth in appearance and has no faith in his fellows he can do anything in mental arith emetic even in complex fractions alacon journal |
