The LISTENER CROSSWORD

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 45, 3 May 1940, Page 16

The LISTENER CROSSWORD

(Answer to No: 4)

also answers the space ship problems, and asks if we have yet received the necessary six answers to Mr. Lambert’s problem. We have. The Desk is deluged with Calculus workings, like a dredge’s slag heap. W. S. Tozer (Christchurch): Trusts our crosswords will continue and become no easier. They will, and they won't. R.W.C. (Christchurch): Recognised the two pints as an old friend, and that we trust is no mistake in grammar. She says factorial 11 is 39916800, and agrees with H.G.L. about the number of combinations in the words "adolf hitler." S.G.E. (Glenavy): Has been most shamefully neglected, especially since his several recent letters have been most useful. He says Tane’s multiplication of 24694 by 362 to get 8445948 by the duo-decimal system was wrong. The answer should have been 8445968. He has compiled some interesting facts about — squares. He starts with ‘this one: 834 159 672 which adds every way to 15, and carries on with the next nine numbers, and the next, and so on up to 80. Then he takes the totals applying in each case and finds they, too, make @ magic square, thus:

So that he can make a magic square of three Sections to each side with each section containing a magic square in itself. G. Tisbury (Invercargill): Has sent a new puzzle which will appear in due course, and Shunter (Ngaruawahia) writes to say that G.T.’s "slipping" solution of the shunting problem was ineligible according to the stated conditions of the puzzle. Naturally, Shunter sends his own solution, which seems to be a quite satisfactory sort of shunt for a shunter. He wishes us "a long and miserable life." Thank you kindly. Q.E.D. (Henderson): Is a new correspondent. He says the same as S.G.E. about Tane’s multiplication, and sends a problem which will take its chance with the rest. L.C.T.: Has solved most of them lately, with spare time for acrostic construction. Intelligentsia (Wellington): Says "the crossword puzzle could be made not so simple." But not without taking the dot out of this correspondent’s eye. We recognise the writing. Tane: Finds that H.G.L. was a bit out in his estimate of the acceleration of the space ship at 600 miles. Sorry we can’t reproduce all the figures and signs used in the argument, but Tane says, in effect, that at 600 miles the ship would be accelerating 64,800,000,000 m.p.h. per second, which Tane suggests would H.G.L. rather flatter than a pancake, Correct answer, says Tane, is that the acceleration would reach 200 m.p.h. per second at 11.91 miles. Since we suspect that for most readers, the differential calculus is much the satne sort of thing as a the atom, we are sending Tane’s letter to H.G.L., and they can fight it out by mail themselves. That will have to do for this week. Next week the file shall be culled again, and winter should come upon us. under a clean sheet.

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