“On Wednesday this week, locals discovered the message “Wife, I was wrong” written in what appears to be yellow chalk all the way up a flight of stone steps in the Pingdingshan Forest Park in China’s Liaoning Province.
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Native Chinese or not, writing that number of kanji characters by hand must have taken the repentant scribbler quite some time, so they will undoubtedly be rather irked to learn that local authorities promptly removed the messages, commenting to reporters that the park is a shared space and not a place for individuals to selfishly vandalise. We only hope that “wife” happened to pass by the park while the messages were still there to be seen.
Neither the identity of the individual who wrote the messages nor their reasons for doing so are known, but the general consensus online is that this that the man had likely cheated on his wife and, with the secret out, decided to do something to atone for his sins.”
Both of them have contributed to the world in terms of Knowledge.
Orientals are reticent in divulging their History because their attitude to Life and the conviction that what they know is nothing when compared to what is to be known.
Indians have contributed to Mathematics by inventing 0 and Infinity ,apart from mathematical calculations.
There is a special branch of Mathematics by using which on can calculate Mathematical problems in a very short time mentally.
There are aphorisms for Addition, Subtraction,Multiplication and Division.
I am providing the link towards the end of the Post.
The timeline of these is at least 5000 years.
Now a Chinese Table of Multiplication had been found, hidden among bamboo sticks.
This is at least 4000 years old!
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Five years ago, Tsinghua University in Beijing received a donation of nearly 2,500 bamboo strips. Muddy, smelly and teeming with mould, the strips probably originated from the illegal excavation of a tomb, and the donor had purchased them at a Hong Kong market. Researchers at Tsinghua carbon-dated the materials to around 305 bc, during the Warring States period before the unification of China.
Each strip was about 7 to 12 millimetres wide and up to half a metre long, and had a vertical line of ancient Chinese calligraphy painted on it in black ink. Historians realized that the bamboo pieces constituted 65 ancient texts and recognized them to be among the most important artefacts from the period…
As in a modern multiplication table, the entries at the intersection of each row and column in the matrix provide the results of multiplying the corresponding numbers. The table can also help users to multiply any whole or half integer between 0.5 and 99.5. Numbers that are not directly represented, says Feng, first have to be converted into a series of additions. For instance, 22.5 × 35.5 can be broken up into (20 + 2 + 0.5) × (30 + 5 + 0.5). That gives 9 separate multiplications (20 × 30, 20 × 5, 20 × 0.5, 2 × 30, and so on), each of which can be read off the table. The final result can be obtained by adding up the answers. “It’s effectively an ancient calculator,” says Li.
The researchers suspect that officials used the multiplication table to calculate surface area of land, yields of crops and the amounts of taxes owed. “We can even use the matrix to do divisions and square roots,” says Feng. “But we can’t be sure that such complicated tasks were performed at the time.”
To remember Multiplication Table, consider the sum of multiplicand and multiplier.
Remember the values for the sum < 10 (2 times table upto 8 x 2; 3 times table upto 7 x 3; 4 times table upto 6 x 4; 5 times table upto 5 x 5;).
We may call these basic Multiplication facts to be remembered.
Using these basic Multiplication facts, We arrive at the values for the sum > 10 (all other values of the multiplication Table) using simple technique from Vedic Mathematics.
The method we follow, here, is very simple to understand and very easy to follow.
The method is based on “Nikhilam” sutra of vedic mathematics.
The method will be clear from the following examples.
Example 1 :
Suppose, we have to find 9 x 6.
First we write one below the other.
9
6
Then we subtract the digits from 10 and write the values (10-9=1; 10-6=4) to the right of the digits with a ‘-‘ sign in between.
9 – 1
6 – 4
The product has two parts. The first part is the cross difference (here it is 9 – 4 = 6 – 1 = 5).
The second part is the vertical product of the right digits (here it is 1 x 4 = 4).
We write the two parts separated by a slash.
9 – 1
6 – 4
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5/4
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So, 9 x 6 = 54.
Let us see one more example.
Example 2 :
Suppose, we have to find 8 x 7.
First we write one below the other.
8
7
Then we subtract the digits from 10 and write the values (10-8=2; 10-7=3) to the right of the digits with a ‘-‘ sign in between.
8 – 2
7 – 3
The product has two parts. The first part is the cross difference (here it is 8 – 3 = 7 – 2 = 5).
The second part is the vertical product of the right digits (here it is 2 x 3 = 6).
This morning I realized that the number of scams are so many and the details are extensive as to warrant a centralised information for reference and follow-up.
So I am summing up these and posting information from sources other than my blog posts.
In a sensational News Global Financial Integrity reported that India stole 343.93 Billion US $ from the World during the period 2002 to 2011, by way of illicit financial outflows.
It is not clear to me whether this information is biased as it is from a source being funded by Ford Foundation , which is suspect.
Does India Steal from the World?
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he developing world lost US$946.7 billion in illicit outflows in 2011, an increase of 13.7% over 2010. The capital outflows stem from crime, corruption, tax evasion, and other illicit activity.
The report finds that from 2002 to 2011, developing countries lost US$5.9 trillion to illicit outflows. The outflows increased at an average rate of 10.2% per year over the decade—significantly outpacing GDP growth. As a percentage of GDP, Sub-Saharan Africa suffered the biggest loss of illicit capital. Illicit outflows from the region averaged 5.7% of GDP annually. Globally, illicit financial outflows averaged 4% of GDP. China leads the world over the 10-year period with US$1.08 trillion in illicit outflows. However, 2011 marked the first time that Russia’s illicit outflows exceeded China’s, with a loss of US$191.14 billion against China’s US$151.35 billion. The previous methodology had significantly understated Russia’s illicit outflows, while it overstated China’s illicit outflows.’
The yak penis is served with a dragon. In the Guolizhuang restaurant there are more than 30 different animal penises on the menu. And for very special guests there’s a list of others
Guo Li Zhuang (Chinese: 鍋裡壯店; pinyin: GuōLiZhuàngDiàn; literally “the strength inside the pot”) is a restaurant brand that specializes in dishes prepared from the genitals (penises and testicles) of male animals from a wide variety of species[1][2] such as horse, ox, donkey, dog, deer, goat, sheep, and snake. The first restaurant was opened by the Guo family in the Chinatown of Atlanta, Georgia in 1956 on the occasion of the birth of Jason Guo, the eldest son in the 7th generation of the Guo family.[3] The first Guo Li Zhuang restaurant in Beijing was opened in November 2006.[4] Since then, restaurants have been opened in several locations in Beijing. The name of the restaurant is derived from homophones of the family name of its founder (Guo), the family name of his wife (Li), as well as the nickname of his son (Zhuang) and literally means “the strength inside the pot”.[1] The dishes are supposed to include medicinal secrets passed down in the Guo family[3] and are often given poetic names such as “The Essence of the Golden Buddha,” “Phoenix Rising,” “Jasmine Flowers with 1,000 Layers”, “Look for the Treasure in the Desert Sand”,[1]“Head crowned with a Jade Bracelet”, and “Dragon in the Flame of Desire”.[4]
Beyond genitals, the restaurant also carries such curious (and rare) delicacies as stewed deer face, sheep foetus in brown garlic sauce, and peacock claws.(wiki)
According to a well-known saying, “Chinese eat anything with four legs, except tables. And everything that flies, except airplanes,” and the food served at the Guolizhuang Restaurant, in Beijing is proof of that. This bizarre establishment opened its gates in 2006, offering all kinds of dishes with animal genitalia as the main ingredient. Many Chinese believe animal penises increase male potency and do wonders for women’s skin, so word about the culinary wonders served at the restaurant on Dongsishitiao Street spread quickly, and the owners were happy to expand their business. There are now several franchises throughout Beijing and one in Atlanta’s Chinatown…
Eating at and even visiting the Guolizhuang Restaurant is not for the faint-hearted. Almost all the dishes served here are made from animal genitalia, although most of them are presented in an edible form and have interesting names like ”The Essence of the Golden Buddha,” “Phoenix Rising,” “Jasmine Flowers with 1,000 Layers”. They sound pretty good, but they’re really just ox penises cut into the shape of stars, sheep gonads on a bed of curry, or thinly sliced donkey penis. The bizarre food is sometimes also eaten raw. Because the foods served at this restaurant is uncommon, even for China, part of the waiters’ job is to explain the properties of each dish to guests. For example, women should not eat testicles, because the hormones could give them a deeper voice and a beard, but penises are harmless.
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