sparks
ELECTRICAL NEWS
november 2015
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Bright Spark
A hairy situation
A riddle party
Uncle Jack knew that the number of hairs on a
human head is at most about 200 000, while the
total population of the world is more than
5 000 000 000.
Therefore on average, you can expect about
25 000 other people to have the same number of
hairs on their heads as on yours. The chance that
no-one has the same number is so small as to be
insignificant which is why Uncle Jack was smiling to
himself even though he had never counted the hairs
on Gary's head.
"Ooh, this is creepy!" said
Cathy, reading out loud.
"The man whomade it
did not want it, the man
who bought it did not use
it and the man who used it
never saw it. What is it?"
"Here's another," said Barry.
"You can only holdme for seconds, sometimes you
lose me, and yet I am with you all your life. What
am I?"
"What belongs to you, which you would never
want to get rid of, but which other people use far
more than you do?" asked Peter, joining in.
"I know that one!" said Linda. "What is broken as
soon as you name it?"
"What animal eats the least?" asked Garry.
"What will grow if you feed it, but dies if you give
it water?"
"The more you take, the more you leave behind.
What are they?"
Can you say?
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