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The Last Danish Pastry
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 Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:01 am Post subject:
The three times table
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One remembers many trivial arithmetical facts: the sums and products
of various small integers, the small primes, etc. I discovered today
that the first multiple of three that I do not remember is 3x26. How
far up the three times table do you remember?
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Clive Tooth
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Rajnish Kumar
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:05 am Post subject:
Re: The three times table
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upto 120
yes i do
The Last Danish Pastry wrote:
| Quote: | One remembers many trivial arithmetical facts: the sums and products
of various small integers, the small primes, etc. I discovered today
that the first multiple of three that I do not remember is 3x26. How
far up the three times table do you remember?
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Clive Tooth
www.clivetooth.dk
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Phil Carmody
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Joined: 05 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:39 pm Post subject:
Re: The three times table
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"The Last Danish Pastry" <clivet@gmail.com> writes:
| Quote: | One remembers many trivial arithmetical facts: the sums and products
of various small integers, the small primes, etc. I discovered today
that the first multiple of three that I do not remember is 3x26. How
far up the three times table do you remember?
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In true monty python-esque form, I fall over at eighteen
threes. Eighteen threes is always fifty-six, no fifty-four,
aaaargh! <fx: jetisoned into a chasm />
Phil
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gwh
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Joined: 06 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:21 pm Post subject:
Re: The three times table
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Phil Carmody wrote:
| Quote: | "The Last Danish Pastry" <clivet@gmail.com> writes:
One remembers many trivial arithmetical facts: the sums and products
of various small integers, the small primes, etc. I discovered today
that the first multiple of three that I do not remember is 3x26. How
far up the three times table do you remember?
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I never thought about a "three times table", as the multiplication of 3
times any 2-digit number takes place in one's mind so rapidly that it
is not possible (for me, anyway) to say whether I'm actually doing the
multiplication or whether I'm just recalling the result from having
done it before and "remembered" it. It's an interesting question, at
any rate.
Regards,
Grover Hughes |
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