DUBLIN COUNTER-ATTACK
The problem about the hen-and-a-half, egg-and-a-half, day-and-a-half question has enjoyed quite a revival recently because somebody has cony plicated it by adding anew twist, says the "Manchester Guardian." Decent non-mathematical citizens who resent being asked to solve improbable problems might protect themselves considerably by learning a question which appeared recently in a Dublin newsI paper. Here it is: "What will 64 Whatumacailits of Whatsis cost at four Mackles per dozen Thingamajigs if 15 Thingamajigs equal one Whatumacallit, five Mackles equal one Meckle, five Meckles equal one Mickle, and five Mickles equal one Mockle?" That question should quieten even the most objectionable of problem-setters, and by the time they have worked it out they will probably have forgotten their original victim's inability to put two and two together. ••
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 132, 1 December 1938, Page 27
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