 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives? Source unknown Wittgenstein, Ludwig The process of calculating brings about just this intuition.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Brendan Kelly - Mathematics - 2000 - 100 pages
...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 sacks, Every sack...Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ivés? 7—» 72— » '3— » The Rhind Papyrus: Problem 79 hieratic script hieroglyphics and... | |
 | Midhat J. Gazalé - Mathematics - 2000 - 340 pages
...Saint Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Ev'ry wife had seven sacks Ev'ry sack had seven cats Ev'ry cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks and wives, How many were going to Saint Ives? It is worth observing that problem 79 in the Rhind Papyrus also deals with groupings of... | |
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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? 
