趣味数学故事（Funny math stories）.docVIP

趣味数学故事（Funny math stories） This article is contributed by the Qin Dynasty qyy The Song Dynasty poet Su Dongpo young with several exams. They arrived too late to the hospital test. The examiner said: I am a contact, if you get on, Ill let you into the room. the examiner couplet is: a boat, sitting for two or three students, opened four paddle five sails, after seven B. six beach, eight top nine to very late. Alas Su Dongpo on the second line is: in 98 years, college, studying five four, give up the seven emotions and six sensory pleasures, took over and over, today must. Examiners and Su Dongpo will be one to ten of these ten figures embedded in couplets, the reader will be difficult and hard to describe the situation incisively and vividly A wrong decimal point Not only learning mathematics problem-solving ideas must be correct, the specific problem solving process is not wrong, the least bit of difference, often a lot. Chicago a pensioner old lady in a small hospital at home after surgery. Two weeks later, she received a bill from the hospital, a sum of $63440. She saw the huge number, can not help but be frightened and change color heart attack, Haide, fell to the ground dead. Later, someone to the hospital for a check, the original computer is the decimal point wrong place, actually only need to pay 63.44 dollars. A wrong decimal point would cost one life. As Newton said, the smallest error in mathematics can not be ignored. From what year does twenty-first Century begin? The age of the century is a unit of age, one hundred years for a century The first and last years of the first century, respectively, AD 1 and ad 100 The common mistake is that some people regard the beginning year as the year zero, which is clearly illogical and our custom, because in general, ordinal numbers begin with 1 rather than from 0. And it is this understanding of the errors, so it led to the end of year for the 99 years of mistakes, it is wrong to 1999 as the end of twentieth Century,