NURSERY RHYME

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21866, 20 August 1936, Page 3 (Supplement)

NURSERY RHYME

(By John McNamara)

Three was his cousin who took a delight, , , Catching the fish when they happened to bite, And now if you count them, Ive , mentioned the three.

DIVISION TESTS

It is always a good ides to check over the working of any sum in case mistakes have been Usually this is a very simple matter and' well worth while- Bcm ~a re some simple tests to show whether or hot a niunber is divisible PkßPtly' ariother—that is, if the smaller pumber will go i n i° the larger leaving no remainder. A number j§ divisible—. . By2, if its last figure is even. »y 8, if the figures of the number Whan added ns am divisible by 3. Thus, to find, out it the BPte-. Three go# into 33 exactly, and so the original number is also an multiple of 3. By 4, if its last two figures are divisible to 4. „ . _ By 5, if the last figure is 5 or 0, By s. if the tests for both 2 and 3 hold. ‘'

By 7, no simple test is known. By 8, if its last three figures are divisible by fi. By 9, if the figures pf the number add lip to a number exactly divisible by 9. Thus the figures of the numh er 51837$ add UP to 33 (s PP above), apo. ag 0, win ppt go mto this exactly the number hj? not divisible by 3By Is, if lb? la§t figwe is 0. By 11, if the difference between the sums o| alternate figure? exact multiple pf 11. fhos lor 32824, add up alternate hgpres. and 2+2=4. The difference between 15 apd 14 is |1 and as this, is a multiple o? 11 (1x11)* the original number is divisible by 11By 18, it the tests for bath 3 and

Green R§in Into the scented woods we'll go. And see the blackthorn swim in snow. High above, in the budding leaves, A brooding dove awakes and grieves; . The glades With mingled music 6tu> And wUdly laughs the woodpeckerWhen blackthorn petals pearl the bret&e, There twisted hawthorn trees Thick-set with oud s » a ? dear end pale ’ , As golden water or green nail— ; As if a atorm pf rain had stood ; < Enchanted in the thorny wpod. ■ ■ srrMARY. .WEBB. .