QUEER MATHEMATICS
‘‘From four take four and leave eight.” You demonstrate the solution bytaking a sheet of paper and showing that it has four corners. Then, with a pair of scissors, you cut off the four corners, and, of course, eight corners will be left. “From six take one and leave twenty.” When this is given up, write down: “Scored,” a word of six letters. Take the last letter away by tearing the paper so ns to leave the word “score,” which, of course, means twenty.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12477, 19 June 1926, Page 16
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86QUEER MATHEMATICS New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12477, 19 June 1926, Page 16
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