Dear AB,
I am helping my girlfriend with her maths homework. We are stuck on 6×3 -
she says it is 247 and I think it is 63.
Which of us is right?
Shane, Sydney, Oz
Ah Shane!
I remember you writing to me some months ago as your were having similar trouble with 6×2.
Glad to see you’ve progressed. I can’t give you the exact answer to your question,(gotta be a bit of self-help here) but would suggest you apply the same formulae I gave to solve 6×2.
Namely:
Take the square root of 6. Divide this by the number times you ever see three buses all of the same number and colour on the same route on the same day (this bit is important – they must be the same colour or the equation won’t work).
Sub divide by the number of Pot Noodles you and your girlfriend have eaten in the last week.
Add the two numbers together and subtract the number of times you’ve said the words “One Direction are changing the way we think about popular music in a post modernist society”.
If you’ve followed the above correctly the answer should be 12.
Good luck!
Aunty Bill
Auntie Bill, is there nothing you can not do?
Yes Kate – I cannot get parole
It’s a crying shame. I’m sure you’re a great comfort to the other inmates, though.
I try Kate, I try.
Wish I had AB around when I was in school. I was terrible at math.
Sadly as AB is in prison at the moment home visits are not an option – however he/she does help via the post.
I’m surprised Aunty Bill was able to find time to answer this letter, in the midst of her advising the U.S. educational system.
I know it doesn’t add up does it!
Now I understand math. If only I had known Aunty Bill when I was in grade seven algebra. My life would have turned out so differently….
His/her work on algebra is the stuff of legend.
I needed Aunty Bill when I was taking math.
If/when he/she is released from prison I see a profitable future in distance learning for him/her Andra.
Contrary to some who wish you had helped them in school, Aunty Bill, I think I may have been taught math by teachers who subscribed to your teaching methods. Judging by the roundabout way I struggle to solve equations, I think your methods have invaded the American school system. You should be so proud!
He/she is!
Has Auntie Bill advised Hawking?
Can’t you tell Frank – it was AB’s work on Black Holes that was the bedrock of SH’s work!
The number 12, now there’s a great London bus route…
I’m a #11 man meself
If we’re talking bus routes I’d like to throw the C2 in the ring, it’s obvioulsy better as it has the audactity to combine a letter and a number. I walk a few minutes further to the C2 bus stop, partly because of that and partly because the closer stop for the number 29 always has a pile of sick on the seats.
Jeez Joe – The 29! Happy memories (not) of that incarnation. Never on the C2 but I will raise you W16 and thus begins london bus routes Battleships…..
Have you been on the 29, also known as the ‘murder bus’ Luckily I hop off before it gets to dodgy territory. I can only assume that whatever boroughs it goes through after Camden have a severe shortage of stores selling anti-perspirant. What else could explain the fact so many people on it stink to high heaven.
The W16, whilst it has a letter, and W is a fine letter at that, it goes around East London so I’ll never have cause to step foot through it’s sliding doors.
You are a wise man Joe. The 29 from Wood Green to Palmers Green was a journey I frequently made to meet this girl. It sound slike she still travels on it judging by the odour issue. She had a nice smile though. On all of her tooth. What was I thinking!
I am gasping. I hope this poor girl doesn’t read your blog
Wouldn’t have thought so Joe. “She upped a broke ma heart paw!”