Dear Readers,
In Blog Post #7, I left you with a super-sizzling summer brainteaser to enjoy tussling with during the month of July, as I didn’t expect to be writing more here before August. However, after seeing a very interesting new film entitled “2:22” at the cinema last night, and then waking up this morning with a fresh, fun “discovery” in my mind, I decided to share it quickly. Please do have fun with it, too!
TO, TWO, TOO JOKE!
Haley: Shall we halve your birthday cake to have half each, Tony?
Tony: Well…OK, but…I’d still like to have two pieces too!
BEAUTY
The famous Italian scientist, philosopher and mathematician Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) once said, “Mathematics is the language with which God created the Universe.” To my mind, everything that God created–including Mathematics–is beautiful, and was meant to be used for good.
I have no doubt that many variations and extensions are possible with the following fun Math ideas, but today I’ll stick to using four-digit numbers like 2886 or 3774, for example. The two middle digits should be equal, and the sum of the two outer digits should equal either of the middle digits.
As I enjoyed the film “2:22” last night, I invite you today to choose your own special four-digit number (as described in bold letters above) and divide your four-digit number by 2.22.
If your answer is not a decimal, but rather a whole number ending in 00 or 50 on the right, then our fun Math has worked perfectly, and is ready for you to try out on some friends, if you wish.
Before I sign off for now, I’d like to mention that I really liked the music in “2:22”, and you can (still for now at least) enjoy listening to a lovely piece by clicking on the following hyperlinked photo.
Click on the photo to listen to a beautiful song.
“Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them”–St. Thérèse of Lisieux.
Paul Motwani 