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? ? ? 亚瑟是哈维玛德学院的数学老师，平生两爱好：魔术，数学。一个五位数的平方可以心算得出来，你心里想的任何数字可以给你猜出来。亚瑟出过一张叫《趣味数学》的光盘，还有一本书叫《心算的秘密》，这里截选一部分内容。 Follow the instructions below. I bet I can predict your answers. How do I do it? Explanations follow. 下面每道题我都保证能猜出各位的答案。如何猜到的？看随后的解析。 ●  1. Choose a number from 1 to 70 and then divide it by 7. (I’ll be nice and let you use a calculator, but you’ll need one that has at least seven decimal places.) If your total is a whole number (that is, no digits after the decimal point) divide the answer by 7 again. Is there a 1 somewhere after the decimal point? I predict that the number after the 1 is 4. Am I right? Now add up the first six digits after the decimal point. 1. 从1到70中任选一个数，除以7，如得到整数，再除以7。小数点后的数字中是不是有1？我猜1后面是4，对不对？现在把小数点后的前六位数字相加。 Your answer is 27. 答案是27。 How do I do it? 答对了吗？ The six fractions 1/7 to 6/7 have the same repeating sequence of six numbers after the decimal point, each fraction starting with a different number in the sequence 142857. Think of these numbers as in a circle (Diagram A), and going around that circle forever. 1/7,2/7,3/7,4/7,5/7,6/7这六个分数的小数点后六位数字是相同的，都是142857，而排列顺序不同。请看A表，这是个无限循环数列，不同的分数，小数点后的首位数字也不同。 The first number after the decimal point in the decimal version of 1/7 is 1 (.142857); of 2/7, 2 (.285714); of 3/7, 4 (.428571); of 4/7, 5 (.571428); of 5/7, 7 (.714285); and of 6/7, 8 (.857142). Adding 1, 4, 2, 8, 5 and 7, you always get 27. 1/7小数点后首位是1（.142857）；2/7小数点后首位是2（.285714）；3/7小数点后首位是4（.428571）；4/7小数点后首位是5（.571428）；5/7小数点后首位是7（.714285)；6/7小数点后首位是8（.857142）。1加4加2加8加5加7，和为27。 ●  2. Choose your favorite number from 1 to 100. Double it, then add 5. Now multiply by 50, then add 1,759. If you have had your birthday already in 2010: happy birthday and add 1 to the total. Subtract the year you were born. 2. 从1到100中选一个最喜爱的数，乘以2，加上5，乘以50，加上1760。如果你2011年的生日已经过了，生日快乐！得出的数再加上1吧，然后减去你的出生年份。 Your answer begins with your favorite number, followed by your age. 最后得出的数，是你最喜爱的数和你年龄的结合。 How do I do it? 答对了吗？ As with most of this mathematica