On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:53:42AM +0100, Andy Wardley wrote: > Merijn wrote: > > I was very impressed one day when I learned that kids on Holland > > nowadays learn about the land of Oct in primary school, age 9-10. > > <aol>Me too!</aol> > > I was telling my wife about this just the other day. I was in the > last year of junior school so also must have been about 9. Our > teacher took us off on an imaginary rocket ship journey to a planet > where the aliens only had 8 fingers.
All I got to do last year of primary school was sit in a corner with a copies of Martin Gardner's (More) Mathmatical Puzzles and Diversions. I'm feeling fantasy-deprived :-) The teacher had a story about the leprechauns that could count up to 1023 on their fingers, so I might have known what binary was too (though I don't remember binary being mentioned). -- Chris Benson
