[BITList] German Super Brain

[John Feltham]

Hugh,

On 18/06/2013, at 16:29 PM, HUGH <chakdara at btinternet.com> wrote:

> John,
>  
> I was going to say it's easy - he's memorised x to the power n for all positive integers x and n - but that would be harder than doing the calculations. Is it a trick?

I had a boy in my classes for two years during which he sat right at the front and did no work.

I wasn't worried as I knew that he would produce A+ work which he did for the full two years.

I met him after he had left school for University. He asked me if if ever wondered what he did during my classes?

When I said that I wasn't worried because I knew that I would get the work from him that would produce top marks, he told me that for a lot of the time he was calculating the logarithms of random numbers, in his head!



ooroo



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