Chinese maths puzzle solved! AND he has a baby...

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A maths challenge from China - used to show how far the UK is slipping behind in maths standards - has been successfully tackled by a Shoreham software engineer.
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That's all great, but I don't understand

Mr Brockley answered the maths problem during his lunch break on Friday. Even more impressively, he managed this mental battle despite being the father of a four-month old baby.
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What? Does being a father make you stupid?

/thanks for the link, long night :p
 
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Is this the story about the maths puzzle posed to potential maths students at university being compared to the A-level Chinese maths problem?

Iirc, there was a prize being offered to people who did the Chinese one whereas the UK university entrance one was simple trigonometry and could be done without a calculator.

edit: it turns out the Chinee one was university standard too. Quite a big difference in difficulty though.
 
The report was a biased load of crap though, although this has already been discussed in another thread and I cba doing it again.
 
divine_madness said:
Sperm are actually just brain cells, so each time you ejaculate, you become a little more stupid.
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That explains a lot....................;)

KaHn
 
El Gringo said:
What? Does being a father make you stupid?
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I think they were getting at the lack of sleep that comes from having a new baby. I struggle to think with a normal night's sleep, I'm sure I wouldn't be able to do any remotely difficult maths after 4 months of sleep depravation!
 
I never actually tried as my A-level maths has been long forgotten, but wasnt it just a simple case of taking that large complicated mess and turning them into simple triangles anyway depending on the question.

Only thing i couldnt remember was what the upside down T meant :D
 
afraser2k said:
I think they're trying to say he's not a complete geek. ;)
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Ah right. That makes sense. He's a dad which means he has a wife or girlfriend so he has some social skills.

Hmm could be the answer there. Congrats!! :p
 
Surely the winner should have been a pre-university student? It wasn't supposed to show that adults were stupid, it was supposed to show that students going to university didn't know enough maths.
 
Vixen said:
Surely the winner should have been a pre-university student? It wasn't supposed to show that adults were stupid, it was supposed to show that students going to university didn't know enough maths.
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Instead, it proved neither.
 
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