MATHEMATICS BY A DOG.
The story of a retriever dog that could do mathematics was told by Dr William Moodie, of Islington, in a lecture to the National Council for Mental Hygiene, reported in the London “ Daily Chronicle.” “ His master,” said Dr Moodie, “ was a mathematician, and he used to take a delight in asking the dog a simple question in arithmetic. It would answer, by barking the requisite number of times. The dog would tell you what was the square root of nine, what two and three made, and so on. “ This mathematician had no idea himself how he gave the dog the signal, and observers who watched him carefully could see no signal given. “ The dog gazed intently into his master’s face and never failed to bark the requisite number of times. This dog, I am sure, had some method of communication which human beings could not appreciate.”
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Waipa Post, Volume 39, Issue 3088, 12 December 1929, Page 7
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