Sancho, the mathematician.
Who could think that Sancho was able to perform a division head with a dividend of 4 figures has become not only a philosopher but know arithmetic and how. Do a test: try to divide 3,300 by 4 without using paper and pencil (not true calculator) costs is not it?.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Greek Mythical Allusions In Romeo And Juliet
Sancho gives us two essential keys for mentally this division: the first is to transform the dividend as the sum of hundreds or thousands + 3300 = 3000 + 300, the second is to decompose the divisor multiples thereof ie 4 = 2 * 2, which makes 4 divisions and a sum at the end.
First divide 3,000 by 2 = 1.500 and then divide the result by 2 and you get real 750. Then repeat these two divisions with 300 quarts and get 75 reais. Adds two numbers and you have the actual number (825) corresponding to 3,300 quarts, witty Right?. However, for a person without any schooling performing these divisions simplified (always get half of a quantity) or even the sum mind, should not be easy and hard to believe that Sancho was capable of this feat, "where he learned arithmetic ?.
A note that was tax collector and must have an agile mind as we demonstrated through Sancho. For my part I can not believe that in the early s. XVII a simple farmer who can not write was able to make this mental calculation. We are immersed in the boot s. XXI owe the invention of the digital computer a loss of mental agility and soon end up worship to "1.5 V alkaline batteries."
After reading the above I invite you to reread Sancho's reply to the invitation of Don Quixote when he says: " put the price on each lash.
- They replied Sancho-three thousand and three hundred-odd, of which I have up to five, are the others, come from the many five, and come to the three thousand and three hundred, to a pint each, which take no less if everyone say so, assembled three thousand three hundred quarts, which are the three thousand, five hundred thousand actual media, which make seven hundred and fifty real, and the three hundred and fifty percent are real means that come to make real seventy-five, which, together with the seven hundred and fifty, are by all eight hundred and twenty-five reals. These desfalcaré me than I have of your worship, and enter my home rich and happy, though well whipped, because trout do not take ... I say no more. "
Agreed price scourge Sancho is not given to mortify, takes about half a dozen self-flogging remember the lovely Dulcinea is he and not another, thus failing spell in the middle will think it's fun to whip it and as such wants to charge you face, doubling the price. Sancho becomes greedy and Don Quixote agrees.
" to six or eight would have Sancho, when he appeared to be heavy and very cheap ridicule the price of it, and, pausing a little, told his master that his name was misleading, because it deserved each stroke of half those paid to be real, not a pint.
"Go on, Sancho friend, and be not dismayed," said Don Quixote, I double the stakes of the price.
Take
-way, "said Sancho," God's hand and let it rain lashes! "
Sancho finally gets tricky and teases him Don Quixote. Know that there is no enchantment and therefore is useless whip, with which Don Quixote deceives into thinking you have a need to believe. Surely you would not continue whipping reached 20.
" But the rogue no longer laid them on their backs, and was in the trees, with some sighs from time to time, it seemed that with every one of them he tore the soul. "
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