- How is your new house going?
- Don’t talk about!
- What’s up?
- Right now they are making the steps to the bedrooms upstairs.
- And?
- The stairs elevates the climber 3 metres. How high should each step be? How wide should each step me? How much space will the stairway take?
- Are you asking me?
- No, I am ordering fries.
An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making money but doesn’t know any women. – Art Buchwald
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- I have an unlimited supply of 3×3 and 7×7 squares.
- I have always envied you that!
- The squares?
- No, what you do with them.
- What do I do with them?
- You tile them to together to make bigger squares.
- How did you know?
- I can see it in the way you walk.
- Is it that obvious?
- Out with it, what is the problem?
- With my 3 and 7 squares I can only make some bigger squares. Which? What do they have in common?
- Is that all?
- My wife has squares of side 2, 7, and 11. What is the smallest square these can tile if its side is not a multiple of 2, 7, or 11?
- You ask me?
- No, my wife asks me.
- Why did you marry her?
In Beverly Hills…they don’t throw their ideas away. They make it into television shows. – Woody Allen
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When I weighed the kitten above I used a pan balance. I remember that the kitten weighed 2009 grams. I had an unlimited supply of 1 gram weights, 10 gram weights, 100 gram weights, and 1000 gram weights. What I don’t remember is in how many ways I selected the weights to balance the kitten. I tried every possibility, but I don’t remember how many there were.
Problem source: Mathematical problems, University of British Columbia.
A man doesn’t know what happiness is until he’s dead. By then it’s too late. – Frank Sinatra
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- Ten pennies are placed in a circle.
- I am not blind.
- They are all showing Heads.
- I see.
- Can you make them all show Tails?
- No problem! Just turn them over.
- You can only turn three adjacent coins at a time.
- Then I don’t know if it is possible.
- If it is, find the least number of moves needed.
- Can I try to solve the problem with five pennies first?
- I did not know you were cheap, but be my guest.
Problem source: Wisconsin mathematics, engineering and science talent search.
The real problem is what to do with problem spoilers after the problem is solved. – Gay Talese
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