A penny at 5 per cent. compound interest from A.D. 1 to 1890
would amount to £10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
_i.e._, Ten Sextillions of pounds, or more money than could be
contained in One Thousand Millions of Globes each equal to the Earth
in magnitude, and all of solid gold.
111. On a flagstaff consisting of an upright pole (6 feet of which is
underground) is a cross-yard 24 feet long; the latter is fixed at a
distance of one-third of the length of the visible part of the pole
from the top; passing from the top of the pole to the ends of the
yard are ropes, forming stays whose falls or ends reach to the ground
on either side of the pole, and it is found that these falls just
reach the base of the pole. The total length of rope in the aforesaid
stays is 40 feet. Supposing that the top diameter of the pole is
one-third of that at the extreme base, and that the whole length of
rope used is 54,177 times the base diameter of the pole, what would
the pole cost at 1 penny per 100 cubic inches?
TEACHER--“Your writing is fairly good, but how do you account
for making so many mistakes in your spelling?”
SCHOLAR--“Please, ma’am, I had chilblains on my hand?”
112. Put down 4 marks (| | | |), and then require a person to put
5 more marks and make 10.
“KEEP YOUR HAIR ON.”
113. Supposing there are more persons in the world than anyone
has hairs on his head, there must be at least two persons who have
the same number of hairs on the head to a hair. Explain this.