In Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's adventures in Wonderland' to assure herself that she understands the strange occurances around her Alice says, "I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, ...."
Now what is Alice talking about here? We all know that four times fives is twenty. Is this is an author's blunder or was Lewis Carroll someone much more than the author of a famous children classic?
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Monday, August 28, 2006
Lewis Caroll
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four times five is twelve
Simple base is 18. He is not wrong.
4 x 5 = 20...base 18 means....10 <=> 18 so 12 = 10 + 2 => 18+2 = 20.
Hence base 18...I think he was some mathematics professor.
yeah! ofcourse he is not wrong... he was a Maths wiz!!
but few people know that he put that in his children's stories also...
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