A Counting Conundrum to Confound and Confuse—and Clarify!
The One/Three diagram: that couldn’t possibly illustrate the Trinity, could it?
We’re all wide-awake now!
Maudeen (as per the weird maths): I call it downright evil.
Wow, a double reference!
Reminds me of something I was thinking about and reviewing last night regarding liberty, and the instructions and date on the Liberty Bell:
Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof Lev. XXV. v X.
By Order of the ASSEMBLY of the Province of PENSYLVANIA for the State House in PhiladA
Pass and Stow
Philada
MDCCLIII
And well, 1753 to 2023 is 270 years, which is a long time for something to be put into storage...
Which had then reminded me that "270" is not written in the normal letter order in Hebrew, because it forms a word that has negative connotations. Indeed, because 270 (resh, 200 + ayin, 70) spells "evil" [רע].
Thus, it is written in reverse order, which is also a word(s) ער, which is to say, WAkey WAkey!
ער, Er: also the name of Judah's firstborn, but he was evil [רע] so he had to go.
Back to the crazy math problem, what to do with nine hundred and thirty-four, all names of numbers in written form:
9
100
30
4
The 9, 30, and 4 come under the umbrella of 100, so...
100
/ | \
9 30 4
Of course, while "woke"math word problems serve to confuse , they are typically just poorly (incompetently) worded and/or filled with corrupt topics "of conversation".
This particular one, however, was simply-worded but plainly unsolvable by normal means.
That's what attracted my attention to it, and Voila! Could be more than one option, but that'll work.
I suspect that in this case, the creator of that problem was having a little mischievous fun.
Liberty, in thinking...
Matthew 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
(word plays: PhiladA is a "hay" field as written in the Hebrew translation, with the hay from above)