17. I’ll Get it for You Wholesale…A wholesale merchant came to me one day and posed this problem. Every day in his business he had to weigh amounts from one pound to one hundred and twenty-one pound, to nearest pound. To do this, what is the minimum number of weight he needs and how heavy […]
Imagine for a moment that you are an impoverished citizen of ancient Egypt, hopefully hoeing the desert and wondering when it will bloom. Suddenly, a could of dust appears on the horizon which eventually resolves itself a gallop of horses and chariots commanded by heavily armed soldier followed, eventually, by a crocodile of exhausted slaves […]
As a student at the university of Amsterdam after the Second World War. Lotte found herself stimulated first by the teaching of Herman de la Fontaine Verwey and they by that of the forceful personality of Wytze Hellinga, at that time professor of Dutch philology at the University. Wytze Hellinga’s teaching was grounded in the […]
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