 | Alfred Frank Tredgold - Intellectual disability - 1922 - 664 pages
...an average of four seconds, and the cube root of any number running into six figures in six seconds. When he was asked how many grains of corn there would...in the third, 8 in the fourth, and so on, he gave the answers * MW Barr, " Mental Defectives," 1905. f A. Wizel, Archiv. fur Psychiat., Band xxxviii.,... | |
 | Frank J. Swetz - Education - 1994 - 282 pages
...in Charlemagne's court school. 1 . A king, recruiting his army, conscripts 1 man in the first town, 2 in the second, 4 in the third, 8 in the fourth, and so on, until he has taken men from 30 towns. How many men does he collect in all? Answer: 1,073,741,823 men... | |
 | Jacob Bernoulli - Mathematics - 2006 - 468 pages
...several preceding rows. Hence it follows that because in the first row there is one choice, there will be 2 in the second, 4 in the third, 8 in the fourth, and so forth in a double geometric progression. But, indeed, it also corresponds to the nature of a double... | |
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... six figures in six seconds. When he was asked how many grains of corn there would be in any one of 64 boxes, with 1 in the first, 2 in the second, 4 in the third, 8 in the fourth, and so on, he gave the answers for the fourteenth (8,192), for the... 