Curious Facts in Figures.
Facts are stubborn things, and so are figures. Besides being obstinate, figures, if carefully studied, are curious puzzles, as the following problems show :—Let the figures 1, 2,3, 4,5, 6,7, 8,9 be multiplied by 45, and we get this result —5,555,555,505. Reverse the figures thus, 9,8, 7,6, 5,4, 3,2, 1, and use the same multiplier, and we get another string, as follows —44,444,444,445. Taking the same figures as a multiplicand, and re. versing ; the figures—45 —54—we get an equally curious result : 6,666,666,606. Again reversing the multiplicand, and using the same multiplier, makes the sum total all threes, except the first and last figures, to wit : 5,333,333,334. It will bo perceived that the first and last figures put together make 54—the multiplier. Take the half of 54 27 or reverse 2 and 7, and use it as the multiplier, and the results will be just as astonishing—all sixes or ones. There is a witchery in these figures, which we invite expert accountants to test. Iron.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 915, 13 September 1889, Page 4
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