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Saturday, 7 august 2010 |
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Sabbath-ul simultan |
Proposed by
ixirimdi |
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Christians the week's first day for Sabbath hold;
The Jews the seventh, as they did of old;
The Turks the sixth, as we have oft been told.
How can these three, in the same place and day,
Have each his own true Sabbath? tell, I pray.
PS
Daca puteti face o traducere fidela, rimata, va rog . . . . (mie mi-a fost teama sa incerc !)
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The way the author of the old poser proposed to solve the difficulty was as follows:
From the Jew's abode let the Christian and the Turk set out on a tour round the globe,
the Christian going due east and the Turk due west. Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's story,
Three Sundays in a Week, or of Jules Verne's Round the World in Eighty Days, will know
that such a proceeding will result in the Christian's gaining a day and in the Turk's
losing a day, so that when they meet again at the house of the Jew their reckoning will
agree with his, and all three may keep their Sabbath on the same day. The correctness
of this answer, of course, depends on the popular notion as to the definition of a
day—the average duration between successive sun-rises. It is an old quibble, and quite
sound enough for puzzle purposes. Strictly speaking, the two travellers ought to change
their reckonings on passing the 180th meridian; otherwise we have to admit that at the
North or South Pole there would only be one Sabbath in seven years. |
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