Sadece maraqlı :-)

Yene de ingilisce ama.. :-) Deyirem Allah verende adama ağılı bele versin ee :-P

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Carl Friedrich Gauss was recognized as a mathematical genius when he was ten.
One day a professor gave him an arithmetic problem. Carl was asked to add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 (1+2+3+4+5, etc.). And it took him only 8 seconds to solve the problem.
How could he do it so quickly?
Carl could do it quickly because he knew that each pair of numbers: 1 plus 100, 2 plus 99, 3 plus 98, and so on to 50 plus 51 - equaled 101. So he multiplied 50 times 101 and came up with the answer: 5 050.

Kangaroo

Salamlar,

Derslerimin çoxluğu ve vaxtımın azlığından son zamanlar blog'a az zaman ayırırdım. Amma bu yaxınlarda bir kitabdan maraqlı bir yazı oxudum. Hem de deyerdim bir az gülmeli :-) Odur ki, Sizinle de bölüşmek istedim. Yazını orijinalda olduğu kimi ingilisce qoyacam.

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Captain Cook, a British navigator, was the first European to reach Austaria's east coast. While his ship was lying off Austaria, his sailors brought a strange animal on board. Cook wanted to know the name of this unusual creature, so he sent his men ashore to ask the native inhabitants. When the natives were asked in impromptu sign language to name the animal, they said, "Kangaroo". The sailors, believed "kangaroo" was the animal's name. Years later, the truth was discovered. "Kangaroo" means "What did you say?"

But today the animal is still being called a kangaroo in English.