 As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Every cat had seven kits— Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives?  Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages ... - Стр. 95авторы: Percy Society - 1841Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Marcel Danesi - 2002 - Страниц: 302
...estate, all told? In eighteenth-century England this same puzzle appeared as a popular nursery rhyme: 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,... | |
 | Jackie Silberg - 2002 - Страниц: 516
...made me laff. Theme Connections Food Humor Cats Counting Families Numbers As I Was Going to St. Ives 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, and... | |
 | Jacqueline Sweeney - 2002 - Страниц: 84
...a Punctuality Poll of the class to see how many kids are punctual and how many are not. 51 .-•• 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 has seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and... | |
 | James Roger Black - 2002 - Страниц: 716
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 | Barbara Robinette Moss - 2002 - Страниц: 321
...Saint 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 and wives, how many were going to Saint Ives?" He sat at the table, lit a cigarette and repeated the riddle as we wrote it onto... | |
 | I. Grattan-Guinness - 2003 - Страниц: 872
...(Boncompagni 7557: Vol. 1, 311), and the familiar Mother Goose rhyme (§7.13): As I was going to Saint Ives, I met a man with seven wives; Every wife had...seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks and wives, How many were going to Saint Ives? 5 GEOMETRY The Greeks generally regarded the Egyptians as the inventors of geometry.... | |
 | Margaret Manning - 2003 - Страниц: 121
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 | I. Grattan-Guinness - 2003 - Страниц: 980
...(1202). Such problems are discussed by Biggs 1979, who compares them with the wellknown nursery rhyme 'As I was going to St Ives, I met a man with seven wives . . . ' . Another type of problem which has a long history is that of constructing magic squares. The... | |
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