Ah Ma the Mathematical Genius

 

From: Rosa - 9
Date: 7/5/00
Time: 9:07:51 PM
 

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Meimei #5 Margaret’s story of the salt fish illustrates our Ah Mah’s precocity vis-a-vis virtual reality. I wonder if the young Changs know of their Tai-Po’s mathematical genius.

There was this woman with three sons, her own and two from her husband’s first marriage. For supper one night she had two hard-boiled eggs to share among the three of them. She settled the dilemma with exemplary fairness.

Addressing the two older boys, she said, ‘ You are not my flesh and blood but I love you more than my own. Look, I am giving each of you an egg, leaving none for my son. But, seeing that he is your didi, I think that each of you should give him half of your egg’.

 

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