“We did not try to exhort anyone to hate. What mattered to us was the mathematical model – the historical context was irrelevant. In order to solve the problem one needs to be acquainted with principles Maths, not the ways of murdering Turks.”
Or so said the co-author and publisher of a mathematics textbook used to train Polish school children who want to compete in an international mathematics competition.
The question in question:
"On board a sinking ship there are fifteen Christians and fifteen Turks. In order to save the ship from going to the bottom, half of the crew needs to be thrown overboard. One of the Christians proposes that the whole crew form a circle and every ninth person jump overboard. How should the Christians place themselves so that only the Turks are drowned?”
See? Perfectly innocent!
Tough question, too. The circle gets smaller after each one jumps, so you can't just do something simple like "make every 3rd person a Turk". It seems like it has to be an iterative solution. But is it? Is there a way to get the answer without drawing the circle and following it around, knocking-off people, until you're left with 15?
As racist as the US is, it’s alot less racist than most societies, in general, I think. Not that hating on Turks is racist, but you get the idea.
The French, however…
Maybe they had to word the problem with Christians and Turks because Polish law wouldn’t allow them to use Christians and Jews.
stupid PC nonsense!
Truly, the racist is the Victim of Liberal Fascism.
(“Victim” being a euphemism because adapting the original insane quote without changing that word just gave my Jewish self the heebie-jeebies when I saw it in actual pixels).
impossible because the strong turks would have threw the pig eaters overboard since they were probably already slave servants to the turks anyhow! bahahahaahahaha