Strange Subtraction

Mathematics, Puzzles, , , 7 Comments

numbers

I took 1 from 19 and I got 20. How was that possible?

.

.

.

.

Solution (Click to Show)

It’s in Roman numeral. So, taking away I (1) from XIX (19) leaves me with XX (20).

Posted by

My name Edmark M. Law. I work as a freelance writer, mainly writing about science and mathematics. I am an ardent hobbyist. I like to read, solve puzzles, play chess, make origami and play basketball. In addition, I dabble in magic, particularly card magic and other sleight-of-hand type magic. I live in Hong Kong. You can find me on Twitter` and Facebook. My email is edmarklaw@learnfunfacts.com

7 thoughts on “Strange Subtraction”

  1. Pingback: Recommended #15 | Joe Rover

Leave a Reply to Tanusri sen Cancel reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s