 | Arthur Rackham - Juvenile Fiction - 1994 - 132 pages
...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 wives, How many were going to St Ives? z\ sunshiny shower Won't last half an hour. to bed, and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy... | |
 | Bernhard Grossfeld - Law - 1995 - 268 pages
...englischer Mother-Goose-rhyme aus dem 18. Jahrhundert lautet: „As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives. Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack...seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives?" (Antwort: Einer: „I met"!) Das Kinderlied bezieht sich wohl auf den Heiligen... | |
 | Dexter J Booth - Mathematics - 1995 - 300 pages
...man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks In each sack were seven cats And with each cat were seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks and wives. How many were going to St Ivés? 3 A male bee has only one parent whilst a female bee has two. The family tree of a male bee... | |
 | Sheldon Brivic - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 180 pages
...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 wives, How many were there going to St. Ives? The Opies (377) say that the correct answer may be either one or none. The... | |
 | K. M. Vickers, M. J. Tipler - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1996 - 318 pages
...did you finish with? Discuss with your group or class. 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 kittens. How many were going to St. Ives? Discuss. • Find the answer to these problems. What assumptions... | |
 | Beatrice Lumpkin - Education - 1997 - 132 pages
...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 wives/ How many were going to St. Ives? Of course, the answer is 1. Only the man was going to St. Ives! About the year 1200, Leonard of Pisa,... | |
 | Charles Miller Grinstead, James Laurie Snell - Mathematics - 1997 - 536 pages
...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 wives, How many were going to St. Ives? (You need our principle only if you are not clever enough to realize that you are supposed to answer... | |
 | C.C. Gaither, Alma E Cavazos-Gaither - Mathematics - 1998 - 506 pages
...Sketches Old and New Answers to Correspondents 'i Unknown As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives; Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack...sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives? Source unknown Wittgenstein, Ludwig The process of calculating brings about just this intuition. Calculation... | |
 | William Carroll - Social Science - 1998 - 620 pages
...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 wives, How many were going to St. Ives? (One) As I went through the garden gap, Whom should I meet but Dick Redcap, A stick in his hand, a... | |
 | David W. Rollason, Margaret Harvey, Michael Prestwich - Architecture - 1998 - 552 pages
...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? John Henry Newman's hymn is in the same form: Praise to the Holiest in the height and in... | |
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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? 
