CAN YOU WORK THIS OUT?
"Hilda, dp you think you ecu Id work out how many farthings {there are in £12 J2/8?" asked her father one day. "Qt course f could/' replied Hilda, and fop a minute jhe was busy with a pencil *»d * PM?Pe of paper. "Twelve 'thousand, one hundred and twenty-eight farthings,'' she announced. "Afl4 4» you notice anything about that?" Hilda studied her figures, but she could see nothing extraordinary about them. "Well," said her father, "don't you see that there are 12,128 farthings* in £12 12/8J " e
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 308, 28 December 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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91CAN YOU WORK THIS OUT? Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 308, 28 December 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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