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GEORGE BIDDER.
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Suppose Saturn to be 777,000,001 miles from the earth,
how many men, at live feet six inches, one upon another,
will reach that star? Ans. 745,920,000,000.
If the diameter of the earth is 7,9 H miles through, how
long would a man be digging through it, at the rate of twelve
feet a day? Ans. 9,536 years, 28 weeks, 4 days.
In a rookery containing 769 nests, built by 1538 rooks,
each nest having 549 sticks, each rook bringing eleven sticks
a day, how long would they be building ? Ans. 24 days, 22
hours, 54 minutes.
If the moon be distant from the earth 123,256 miles, and
sound to travel at the rate of four miles in a minute, how
long before the inhabitants of the moon could hear of the
battle of Waterloo? Ans. 21 days, 9 hours, 34 minutes.
If a flea spring two feet three inches in every hop, how
many hops must it take to go round the world, the circum-
ference is 25,020 miles, and how long would it be in per-
forming the journey, allowing it to take sixty hops every
minute, without intermission? Ans. 58,713,600 hops, and
1 year, 314 days, 13 hours, 20 minutes.
Suppose 70,000 soldiers to be allowed three quarters of a
pound of beef per day, how many pounds will they consume
in a year? Ans. 19,162,500.
Id 999,998,354 farthings, how many pounds ? Answer,
1,041,664/. 19$. 0|t?.
Add together the following sums, viz.
343,554,620,740/. 65. 7|d.
450,230,630,220 5 1
120,340,220,150 3 1|
Ans. 914,125,471,110 14 91
A question resolved by George Bidder in three minutes,
proposed by Mr. Robert Eden, 1, Windsor-court, Strand,
Eeb. 17, 1819-
If I have ten millions of pounds in my hands, the greater
11
Suppose Saturn to be 777,000,001 miles from the earth,
how many men, at live feet six inches, one upon another,
will reach that star? Ans. 745,920,000,000.
If the diameter of the earth is 7,9 H miles through, how
long would a man be digging through it, at the rate of twelve
feet a day? Ans. 9,536 years, 28 weeks, 4 days.
In a rookery containing 769 nests, built by 1538 rooks,
each nest having 549 sticks, each rook bringing eleven sticks
a day, how long would they be building ? Ans. 24 days, 22
hours, 54 minutes.
If the moon be distant from the earth 123,256 miles, and
sound to travel at the rate of four miles in a minute, how
long before the inhabitants of the moon could hear of the
battle of Waterloo? Ans. 21 days, 9 hours, 34 minutes.
If a flea spring two feet three inches in every hop, how
many hops must it take to go round the world, the circum-
ference is 25,020 miles, and how long would it be in per-
forming the journey, allowing it to take sixty hops every
minute, without intermission? Ans. 58,713,600 hops, and
1 year, 314 days, 13 hours, 20 minutes.
Suppose 70,000 soldiers to be allowed three quarters of a
pound of beef per day, how many pounds will they consume
in a year? Ans. 19,162,500.
Id 999,998,354 farthings, how many pounds ? Answer,
1,041,664/. 19$. 0|t?.
Add together the following sums, viz.
343,554,620,740/. 65. 7|d.
450,230,630,220 5 1
120,340,220,150 3 1|
Ans. 914,125,471,110 14 91
A question resolved by George Bidder in three minutes,
proposed by Mr. Robert Eden, 1, Windsor-court, Strand,
Eeb. 17, 1819-
If I have ten millions of pounds in my hands, the greater