Abacus
98+1,623
1,721
45*9
405
Q made 3 of 22 field goals in a game of basketball. What is Q's shooting percentage?
13.64% OR 0.1364
V
5
British law once required that any man to serve as a credible witness, he must be capable of counting to this number...
9
4,826-789
4,037
89*70
6,230
479-841
-362
XLII
Shepherds once kept count of sheep they let out of the pen to graze using this method of counting...
Pebbles and pouches.
If there were any pebbles that were not returned to the pouch the shepherd knew that there were stray sheep to go searching for.
78*4
312
125*60
7,500
7,623*1,250,000
9,528,750,000
CCCXV
315
In 1947, a competition took place between a Japanese official using a Soroban (abacus) and a U.S. Army private using an advanced electronic calculating machine. Who won the competition?
Matsuzake of Japan won, taking 4/5 of the competitions.
786/321
2 r144
458*899
411,742
314 / pi
100
MMXXII
2022
“Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descripito” published 1614, described a table of sines, secants, tangents, and.... Lumberjacks' favorite part of math!
Logarithms (Logs)
899*11
9,889
9,731*66
642,246
Terry attends MIT and has the following grades for Astrophysics 101 class... 78, 82, 88, 86, 93, 91, 98. What is Terry's class average?
[all grades are out of 100 points possible and weighted equally]
88
IV
4
Before sextants, compasses, and GPS satellites humans relied on the celestial bodies to navigate long distances. The celestial pole in the northern hemisphere is known as Polaris or the North Star. In the southern hemisphere, the celestial pole is this constellation made up of this number of stars....
The Southern Cross (4 star constellation)