Showing posts with label Math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Math. Show all posts

Friday, October 18, 2013

Math, c. 1850 BCE

Below is the oldest riddle, a problem pre-God.

There number seven houses.
Each house has seven cats.
Each cat killed seven mice,
Each mouse ate seven grains,
And each grew seven hekats.
Can you count the things that are there?


How amazingly bland.