![]() ![]() ![]() The Praying Nobleman A certain powerful nobleman committed a grave sin and the Bishop set him harsh penance - to pray in the chapel on his knees every day of the week and for at least two hours each time. If you sketch out how the seamstress did her cutting, you'll see that straight away. By now she doubted she had enough cloth left and needed to work out how many times bigger the original square was than the new one. So she cut out the largest square she could out of the circle. But then she realized, the poor soul, that she was supposed to have cut out a square. She had a big square of cloth, and she cut the corners off so as to make the largest possible circle. The Confused Seamstress I once knew a certain confused seamstress. In fact, the only foreign being on the boat was the Priest of Rome himself. How many foreign creatures are on the boat? There were ten Pigmies, one-cubit tall dwarfs, and also twenty Panottids, beings with lots of ears. ![]() There were twelve Acephalics, headless people. There were fifteen Monopods, one-legged people. Once, while cross the river on a boat he decided to count his fellow passengers. There he encountered weird and mysterious inhabitants of this foreign land. Priest in a Foreign Land A certain Priest of Rome set off on a long journey to the mythical land of Prestor John. The thing to bear in mind is that when an odd number of people sit at a round table, nobody is sitting directly opposite anyone else. The question is, what is the smallest number of people the King might have invited to the castle? Neither of them is sitting to the left or the right or directly opposite another Lady. ![]() After a while, the two ladies Karolina and Sophia notice something interesting. He seats all the company around a round table.
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