Sunday, March 15, 2015

1 + 1 ≠ 3, or 2 Even

An Indian bride walked out of the wedding when her husband-to-be couldn't perform a simple addition.
the bride posed the following math problem to the man she was due to wed: 15 + 6 = ?

The groom answered 17, and the bride fled. The groom’s family tried to get her back, but she refused to marry someone who couldn’t add.
A cascade of calumnies has rained upon the ditched groom by a lazy media that accepts this story at face value. There are alternative explanations:
  • "I use a computer for all calculations, that is, unless you want me to do the taxes by hand."
  • "In my family questions are given in base 10 and answers are given in base 14."
  • "How do I get out of marrying someone who gives a math test before her wedding?"
  • "You're bringing 15 people to live with the 6 of us?"
  • In the United States half the math PhD's are Indian and the other half are Chinese. An Indian guy who can't do arithmetic? C'mon!!
  • But seriously, math provides a reason for the recent pickiness exhibited by Indian brides:
    India has 37 million more men than women....As of 2011, there were 940 Indian women for every 1,000 men.

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