If eleven plus two equals one, what does nine plus five equal?
Birbal was jester, counsellor, and fool to the great Moghul emperor, Akbar.
The villagers loved to talk of Birbal's wisdom and cleverness,
and the emperor loved to try to outsmart him.
One day Akbar (emperor) drew a line across the floor.
"Birbal," he ordered, "you must make this line shorter, but you cannot erase any bit of it."
Everyone present thought the emperor had finally outsmarted Birbal.
It was clearly an impossible task.
Yet within moments the emperor and everyone else present had to agree that Birbal had made the line shorter without erasing any of it.
How could this be?
Below, you will find the mathematical proof that 10 equals 9.99999?. But is that possible or there is something wrong about it? Can you find the error?
x = 9.999999...
10x = 99.999999...
10x - x = 90
9x = 90
x = 10
I was speeding and ran through a stop sign, yet two traffic officers who were there do nothing about it.
why?
How can you drop a raw egg from a height onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
A mathematician couple was having a Frappuccino in Starbucks sitting opposite to each other. Suddenly the guy noticed the text written on the paper in front of them and exclaimed that it was wrong. The girl denied it and said it is appropriate. Both are correct. What is written on the paper?
Look at the below sequence of letters and tell us what the next letter should be:
O T T F F S S ?
Here is a mathematical expression that also secretly tells a movie name. What movie is that?
Who always enjoys poor health?
I have an apple tree , number of apple in this tree get doubles every week.
On 30th week , the tree gets completely filled with apples :-)
Can you tell me , on what week does my tree is half covered with apples ?
In 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years. The gamers solved it in three weeks.
