December 30, 2016 Friday
Bedtime Story
Breaking Down the Super-Oxford in 26 Volumes
Now is the time to show you a miracle guys.
If you take out all the first letters A from all the “words” that
began with it, you end up creating once again the super-Oxford dictionary!
You need to go back to the last night’s bedtime story and have a
look at all the words once again.
It may not be so clear even now, so let me explain this to you in
more detail and stepwise.
Let us once again analyze this super-Oxford dictionary.
It runs something like this.
A, AA, AAA…, AB, ABA, ABAA, … , AC, …, AZ, AZA, …
B, BA, BAA…, BB, BBA, BBAA, … , BC,…, BZ, BZA, …
C, CA, CAA…, CC, CBA, CBAA, … , CC,…, CZ, CZA, …
Z, ZA, ZAA…, ZB, ZBA, ZBAA, … , ZC,…, ZZ, ZZA, …
Now, to simplify things further and make the super-Oxford less of
a burden to carry around, we can divide this massive tome into 26 volumes, one
for each alphabet.
So now this massive tome has 26 volumes which go as follows:
Volume A: A, AA, AAA…, AB, ABA, ABAA, … , AC, …, AZ, AZA, …
Volume B: B, BA, BAA…, BB, BBA, BBAA, … , BC,…, BZ, BZA, …
Volume C: C, CA, CAA…, CC, CBA, CBAA, … , CC,…, CZ, CZA, …
Volume Z: Z, ZA, ZAA…, ZB, ZBA, ZBAA, … , ZC,…, ZZ, ZZA, …
There is yet another thing which can be done to reduce the girth
of each volume without the loss of any information.
As you would have noticed, all the words say in volume C begin
with C and that makes the first letter C redundant.
This fact holds good for all the volumes.
So it makes sense to take out the first letter from each volume
since we would know the first letter of each word which is fixed by default.
What do you think we will get if we carry out this step?
We shall probably discover it by next 24 hours if I stay
alive.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average story storytelling
chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
Another great educator and a teacher that I am aware of is
Professor Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
Do visit him here:
All his books can be downloaded for free through this link:
For edutainment and English education of your children, I
recommend this large collection of Halloween Songs for Kids:
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