“In this clip the two girls are adding up 30 digits in 20 seconds while simultaneously playing ‘shiritori‘, a Japanese game in which you must say a word beginning with the last syllable of the previous word,” says the report by Alex Bellos, in The Guardian. The subhead on the article explains: “Flash Anzan, in […]
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Clever Hans and the calculator
Arthur Buxton is one of the few artists who is calculating enough to both illustrate and extend the legend of Clever Hans (click on the drawing to go to Buxton’s blog). Clever Hans was a horse that purportedly could do mathematical calculations, stamping his paw to count out the results. The truth of the matter—that […]