7 May 2018
We know that nine Tens make a ninety. Nine nineties make an eight hundred ten. Even nine ninety nines also make an eight ninety-one. But, ten tens may fail to make a hundred.
Last month, 101 year old man whose name we could not recover because he himself could not recollect it, sent us an email stating that despite living for ten years Ten Times, his age is not ten times of ten. Instead, it is ten percent of ten more. That is, he is now a hundred and one years old. At first we did not believe him. But then, he sent us images of all his birthdays from the first to the hundred and oneth (if that’s what it is called) and amazingly the hundredth one was missing.
We were left speechless. The evidence was surely overruling commonsense, and by some wild margin, common arithmetic. The data was surely conclusive. How can a man who has preserved all hundred birthday pics of a hundred and one year old life, lose the birthday pic in which he crossed a century?
We forwarded our story to world-famous mathematicians and they have published paper stating that from today onwards, it will illegal to firmly state that ten times ten is hundred.
