 | Charles Miller Grinstead, James Laurie Snell - Mathematics - 1997 - 536 pages
...this principle as follows: First, he relates a popular nursery rhyme dating back to at least 1730: 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... | |
 | Beatrice Lumpkin - Education - 1997 - 132 pages
...for a product of 19,607. What does it mean? The first column reminds us of the Mother Goose 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 and... | |
 | David Wells - Mathematics - 1997 - 260 pages
...vlOl 439] The problem ofSt Ivés This Mother Goose rhyme is well known: 'As I was going to St Ivés, I met a man with seven wives. Every wife had seven sacks, and every sack had seven cats, every cat had seven kittens. Kittens, cats, sacks and wives, how many... | |
 | Arthur B. Powell, Marilyn Frankenstein - Mathematics - 1997 - 466 pages
...=-(2a + (n 2 79 of the Ahmose papyrus which seems to anticipate this Mother Goose rhyme by 3,500 years, "As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with 7 wives. Each wife had 7 sacks, Each sack had 7 cats ..." Compare with: Houses 7 Cats 49 Mice 343 Spelt... | |
 | C.C. Gaither, Alma E Cavazos-Gaither - Mathematics - 1998 - 506 pages
...Arithmeticus Virginia, Nevada I don't know. Sketches Old and New Answers to Correspondents 'i Unknown As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven...seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives? Source unknown Wittgenstein, Ludwig The process of calculating brings about... | |
 | William Carroll - Social Science - 1998 - 620 pages
...reader assume all responsibility for safety and use not in accordance with the above stated purposes. 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... | |
 | Brendan Kelly - Mathematics - 2000 - 100 pages
...forerunner and perhaps the origin of the familiar related nursery rhyme: As I was going to St. Ivés, I met a man with seven wives; Every wife had seven...seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ivés? 7—» 72— » '3— » The Rhind Papyrus: Problem 79 hieratic script hieroglyphics... | |
 | Paul Johnson - History - 1999 - 276 pages
...and Roman worlds, and Egyptian-style prmiitive mathematics are reflected in such archaic ditties as 'As I was going to St Ives I met a man with seven wives', etc. Granted the technology of the ancient world, and certainly granted the technology the Egyptians... | |
 | Bryan Bunch, Bryan H. Bunch - Mathematics - 2001 - 414 pages
...nearly 3000 years later by Fibonacci, and also is implicit in the trick question of a children's rhyme: As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven...cats, Every cat had seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks, wives — How many were going to St. Ives? I trust you know the correct answer, but perhaps were fooled... | |
 | David A. King - Astrolabes - 2001 - 518 pages
...familiar Mother Goose rhyme, which in its essence goes back to Ancient Egypt:4 "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?" is: 2 + 7 + 72 + 73 + 74. Only in the monastic ciphers, here modified to... | |
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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? 
