Wednesday, March 17, 2010

印度的九九乘法
印度的小學生九九乘法表是從1 背到19(→19×19乘法 ),

不過您知道印度人是怎麼記 11到19 的數字嗎?
我是看了下面這本書之後才恍然大悟的。

「印度式計算訓練」
2007年 6月 1 0日第一版第 6刷發行株式會社晉遊社 發售
介紹了加減乘除的各種快速計算方法,

不過在這裡我只介紹印度的九九乘法。因為實在太神奇了!!

下面的數字跟說明都是引用該書P.44 的例子。

請試著用心算算出下面的答案:
13 X 12 = ?
(被乘數) (乘數 )
印度人是這樣算的。
第一步:
先把被乘數(13)跟乘數的個位數 (2)加起來
13 + 2 = 15

第二步:
再把被乘數的個位數(3)乘以乘數的個位數 (2)
2 X 3 = 6

第三步:
然後把第一步的答案乘以10(→也就是說後面加個 0 )

之後再加上第二步的答案就行了
15 X 10 + 6 = 156
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就這樣,用心算就可以很快地算出11X11 到19X19了喔。這真是太神奇了!

我們試著演算一下
14×13:
(1)14+3=17
(2)17×10=170
(3)4×3=12
(4)170+12=182
真的是耶,好簡單喔
怎不早點讓我知道呢
這對我這種只會個位數加個位數的人真是一大福音!!
VERY IMPORTANT SECURITY MESSAGE - MUST READ

If u love traveling then u must be aware of the magnetic key card.



Always take a small magnet on your holiday, they come in handy at the end of it.
Thought you all needed to know this

This is pretty good info. Never even thought about key cards containing anything other than an access code for the room!

HOTEL KEY CARDS

Ever wonder what is on your magnetic key card?

Answer:
a. Customer's name
B. Customer's partial home address
c. Hotel room number
d. Check-in date and out dates
e. Customer's credit card number and expiration date!

When you turn them in to the front desk your personal information is there for any employee to access by simply scanning the card in the hotel scanner.. An employee can take a hand full of cards home and using a scanning device, access the information onto a laptop computer and go shopping at your expense.

Simply put, hotels do not erase the information on these cards until an employee reissues the card to the next hotel guest. At that time, the new guest's information is electronically 'overwritten' on the card and the previous guest's information is erased in the overwriting process.

But until the card is rewritten for the next guest, it usually is kept in a drawer at the front desk with YOUR INFORMATION ON IT!

The bottom line is: Keep the cards, take them home with you, or destroy them. NEVER leave them behind in the room or room wastebasket, and NEVER turn them into the front desk when you check out of a room. They will not charge you for the card (it's illegal) and you'll be sure you are not leaving a lot of valuable personal information on it that could be easily lifted off with any simple scanning device card reader.

For the same reason, if you arrive at the airport and discover you still have the card key in your pocket, do not toss it in an airport trash basket. Take it home and destroy it by cutting it up, especially through the electronic information strip!

If you have a small magnet, pass it across the magnetic strip several times.. Then try it in the door, it will not work. It erases everything on the card.

Information courtesy of: Metropolitan Police Service.
Below article published in Sin Chew Jit Poh 2/12/2009 column.

Someone took the liberty to do a little translations for the benefit of those handicapped by Mandarin.


夢醒時分 The moment when dream is awakend...

鄭丁賢•夢醒時分
2009-12-02 20:49

你是否和我一樣,發覺身邊的親戚和朋友,似乎少了許多。
I wonder you feel the same as me, all the sudden I realized friends and relatives around me seems to get less and less.

以往接近過年時,各種聚餐排得滿滿的,而今年,似乎沒聲沒息。
Those years when the New Year drew near, all sorts of gathering appointments almost completely filled the diaries, but this year seems so quiet.

即使是平常日子,電話少了,與大家見面也少了。
Even in nromal time, phone calls become less and less, face to face meet up also become much less.

也許,大家各忙各的;或者,目前流行“宅生活”,儘量避免出門。
Perhaps, everybody is busy with their own tihings, or perhaps, nowadays people prefer to stay in.

也不盡然如此。再想一想,很多老友和親戚,已經不在了。嗟!大吉利是,他們都還好好的,只是離開了馬來西亞。
However, it is not entirely like this, thinking further, actually old friends and relatives are not around any more. God bless, they are still alive and well, they just left the country, Malaysia.

去了中國大陸開工廠;王子不做工程師,移民到澳洲開小食檔;阿風離開本地大學,去香港做講師;青蛙去了台灣,開展事業第二春;還有的到了美國、英國,唔,還有去印尼的……。
They have gone to China to set factory; ah Wang quit his engineer job and migrated to Australia to set up his little food store business, ah Fong left the local University went to Hong Kong as a lecturer. 'Frog' went to Taiwan to pursue his second career life. Others went to Americia, England, even Indonesia...

起初,以為這只是個別現象,逐漸的,旁人也有同樣發現;原來,這不是個別現象,而是社會現象;這不是少數,而是相當大的數目。
At first, I thought these are individual cases, but gradually, people around me realized the same, these are not individual cases but a general symptoms of our society. they are not small numbers but the pretty big indeed.

外交部早前披露了一個數字,說明這個現象是多麼真實,多麼貼近。
Department of Foreign Affairs released the figures earlier, it confirmed the situation is real.

從去年3月到今年9月,已經有30萬大馬人移民他國;其中20萬人是今年1月到8月出走的數目。
From March 2008 thru September 2009, a total of 300,000 Malaysian migrated to other countries, among them 200,000 left between Jan - Aug 2009. (in 8 months)

累積下來,已經有超過200萬大馬人移民,接近今天印尼外勞在大馬的人口。
Cummulatively, there are 2 million Malaysian migrated, this figure is close to the number of Indonesian workers in Malaysia today.

不同的是,移居他國的大馬人,多是專業人士、中產階級。
The difference are, those migrated are mostly professional and middle class people.

他們有很多出走的理由,追求事業發展,為了孩子前途,尋找個人更大空間……,概括一句:對馬來西亞失望。
They have many reasons to leave: pursue career development, for the future of their children, in search of better life and environment... In one sentence, they lost hope of Malaysia.

50年前,大家說,馬來西亞真好,好過香港,甚至日本。
50 years ago people said: Malaysia is very good, better than Hong Kong and even Japan.

30年前,大家說,馬來西亞還不錯,比得上韓國、台灣(不提香港和日本了)。
30 years ago people said: Malaysia is not bad, comparable to S. Korea and Taiwan. (No mention of Hong Kong and Japan any more).

20年前,大家說,馬來西亞還可以,至少超越中國、泰國(不能和台、韓比了)。
20 years ago people said: Malaysia can do la, at least better than China and Thailand (Cannot compare with Taiwan and Korea lah)

10年前,大家說,馬來西亞再差,還不至於像越南、印尼(中國已是不同級別)。
10 years ago poeple said: No matter how bad Malaysia is, cannot be worse than Vietnam and Indonesia ko-ah. (China is already in a different category).

今日,越南和印尼的經濟成長率遙遙領先大馬,社會活力和知識發展也勝過一籌;距離愈來愈近了。
Today, the economic growth rate of Vietnam and Indonesia already far exceeded Malaysia, Social activity and intellectual development of the country is also better, the gap between us and them is closing up.

怕甚麼,還有菲律賓和柬埔寨、緬甸。
Why worry? there are still Philipines, Cambodia and Myanmar behind us.

但是,一位經濟學家最近到菲律賓考察之後,認為再過20年,大馬可以取代菲律賓,出口馬籍女傭到全世界了。
However, according to an economist who recently surveyed Phillipines, he think in 20 years' time, Malaysia can replace Phillipines to become the World exporter of Malaysian maids.

半個世紀以來,馬來西亞是在大宅院裡,用封建方式,分配祖宗家業,消耗社會資源,浪費和逼走人才;不談競爭力,忽略生產力,討厭績效制。
Over half the century, Malaysians live in the big old imperial housing complex, closed up and survive on properties left behind by the ancestor; continue to consume up social resources, wasteful, and drive away talents; they never talk about competitiveness, totally neglect productivity, and hate meritocracy.

亞洲金融風暴來襲時,大馬把門關起來,以為避過一劫,有人還自我陶醉,自以為是天才策略。
When Asia economic storm hit in 1997, Malaysia closed their doors, thinking we beautifully avoided a disaster, there even think of themselves as genius, being able to handle the situation so well.

然而,其它國家面對風暴,走出風暴,進行體質改革,跨步向前,登上另一個水平;大馬卻還在原地踏步。
However, just look at other countries in our neighbourhood, they stand up, face the storm, and walk out of the storm. They overhaul the system, improve the processes and march forward, they moved up to a new level. And Malaysia, still walking on the spot.

馬來西亞,該醒一醒了。
Dear Malaysia, it's time to wake up! We are very very late now!
For original article, please see link below:
http://opinions.sinchew-i.com/node/12566

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