{"id":5381,"date":"2009-04-14T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2009-04-14T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T20:00:23","slug":"the-ways-of-murdering-turks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5381","title":{"rendered":"The Ways Of Murdering Turks"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWe did not try to exhort anyone to hate. What mattered to us was the mathematical model \u2013 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or so said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polskieradio.pl\/thenews\/foreignaffairs\/artykul106067_math_pupils_learn_how_to_drown_turks_.html\">the co-author and publisher of a mathematics textbook<\/a> used to train Polish school children who want to compete in an international mathematics competition.<\/p>\n<p>The question in question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"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?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See? Perfectly innocent!<\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe did not try to exhort anyone to hate. What mattered to us was the mathematical model \u2013 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.\u201d Or so said the co-author and publisher of a mathematics textbook used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}