somewhere along the way i've developed a learning disability when it comes to math. i used to be good at math. i was the top of my class. but then for some reason, i got lazy, or i got scared, or both, and then i began to do terribly at some math tests in junior high. i began to think/believe that i was bad at math or that i was just dumb at math. in high school however, i once went to kumon for a while. it's a math supplemental class, it's a class most asian parents send their kids to, for fear that their asian kid will be the one bad apple in the crowd of asian math whizzes. actually i think i did well in the class, the teacher taught me some math and it wasn't too hard to understand. yet inspite of that, i still much preferred to spend my days in a book or watching a film, not cranking out math equations. thus, to this day (and yes, it's been going downhill since) my phobia of math has gotten even worse. in fact, i've regressed to the point where i can't even do simple arithmetics sometimes.
i just watched a bad movie. it's called Proof. even so, it's a movie that made me think, huh...math is a pretty interesting subject actually. The most brilliant minds in mathematics, what would that be like? There is something awe-inspiring in a math, in and of itself. it stands like a beacon of truth and light, it promises to reveal itself to only those who seeks. do you think math is a way or path to God, even?
anyway, after all this spilling of my guts, which was entirely unnecessary of course, but perhaps then again, so is my entire blog. i have something lighter to share. it's a puzzle. it goes like this.
There are three glasses on the table - 3, 5, and 8 oz. The first two are empty, the last contains 8 oz of water. By pouring water from one glass to another make at least one of them contain exactly 4 oz of water.
it's actually pretty easy. i solved it in like 3 minutes.
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What happened to your caplitalizations? You've just decided to throw that out the window for some reason? I told you before, you're bad at math because you are not Asian. Now to solve your problem.
8->5->3->8 5->3 8->5 discard rest of 1oz from 8
3->8 5->3 5->8 = 4oz in 8.
This is the same riddle in Die Hard with a Vengeance. Now here's one for you!
As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, wives, how many were going to St. Ives?
Here's what I got, without discarding the water:
glass: Original first-time 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th
3cup 0 0 3 0 2 2 3 0
5cup 0 5 2 2 0 5 4 4
8cup 8 3 3 6 6 1 1 4
is that a trick question Jason? The man's wives, sacks, cats and kits may all be at home. so the answer is ZERO.
or if you really want, i can solve the question mathmatically i guess.
Wrong, the answer is 1. Just himself. And yes, it is a trick question. Luckily, Samuel L. wasn't stumped by it. He got it right.
fine, but i was partly right. of the wives and cats, none of them went.
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