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Corsaire31
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A Cajun man wants a job, but the foreman won't hire him until he passes a little math test.
Here is your first question, the foreman said. Without using numbers, represent the number 9.
Without numbers? The Cajon says, "Dat easy"and proceeds to draw three trees..
What's this? the boss asks.
"Ave you got no brain? Tree and Tree and Tree make nine", the Cajun says.
Fair enough, says the boss. Here is your second question. Use the same rules, but this time the number 99.
The Cajon stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that he had just drawn and makes a smudge on each three. Ere you go. The boss scratches his head and says, "How on earth do you get that to represent 99?"
"Each of da trees is dirty now. So, its dirty tree, and dirty tree, and dirty tree. Dats 99."
The boss is getting worried that he is going to actually have to hire this Cajun, so he says, All right last question. Same rules again but represent the number 100.
The Cajun stares into space some more, then picks up the picture again and makes a little mark at the base of each tree. "Ere you go. One hundred".
The boss looks at the last picture and said "You must be nuts if you think that represents one hundred !"
The Cajun leans forward and points to the mark at the base of each tree and says: "A little dog come along and pooped by each tree. So now you got dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd which makes one hundred."
Here is your first question, the foreman said. Without using numbers, represent the number 9.
Without numbers? The Cajon says, "Dat easy"and proceeds to draw three trees..
What's this? the boss asks.
"Ave you got no brain? Tree and Tree and Tree make nine", the Cajun says.
Fair enough, says the boss. Here is your second question. Use the same rules, but this time the number 99.
The Cajon stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that he had just drawn and makes a smudge on each three. Ere you go. The boss scratches his head and says, "How on earth do you get that to represent 99?"
"Each of da trees is dirty now. So, its dirty tree, and dirty tree, and dirty tree. Dats 99."
The boss is getting worried that he is going to actually have to hire this Cajun, so he says, All right last question. Same rules again but represent the number 100.
The Cajun stares into space some more, then picks up the picture again and makes a little mark at the base of each tree. "Ere you go. One hundred".
The boss looks at the last picture and said "You must be nuts if you think that represents one hundred !"
The Cajun leans forward and points to the mark at the base of each tree and says: "A little dog come along and pooped by each tree. So now you got dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd which makes one hundred."
fair dinkum ....