On the way to school, Eddie and I saw a swarm of ants on the sidewalk, and Eddie stopped to examine them for a minute.
Later he said "Papa, there must have been a hundred ants!"
"Yeah!" I said. "Even more than a hundred, I think."
"Yes, there were a billion ants!" he said.
... and he, the mathematician's son, counted them!
ReplyDeleteI always wondered exactly how many there were. Thanks, Eddie.
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