The constellation
J2213 Illogical use of numbers
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- Each of two persons wants to sleep in the middle. (Sometimes solved by placing an object on one side of the bed.) · J2213.1 entry
- A profitable fight: three for one! A priest boasts of his profitable fight with the peasants, where he has received three blows for every one given · J2213.2 entry
- The seventh cake satisfies. Fool regrets that he had not eaten number seven first since that was the one that brought satisfaction · J2213.3 entry
- If the horse can pull one load he can pull two · J2213.4 entry
- Twenty better than ten. A numskull is asked how many daily prayers (Moslem) there are. "Twenty." – "There are only four." – "I said that there are twenty; that is even better." · J2213.5 entry
- Selling his half of the house. A man owns half a house. He wants to sell his half so as to get money to buy the other half and thus have a whole house · J2213.6 entry
- Dentist duped to pull out two teeth for one because of the expensiveness · J2213.7 entry
- Man prefers small oysters, since he will get more to the hundred · J2213.8 entry
- Numskull finds that one feather makes a hard pillow, thinks a sackful would be unbearable · J2213.9 entry