Rigved

A couple of days ago I came across 2 lists which Rig had created on pink colored note papers, their contents were as follows(the struck one’s were ticked in the lists):

List 1:

• Sort the toys
• Find the copass (he meant compass probably)
• Study ants
• Write story
• Read all Harry Potters

List 2

• Battery
• Metal junk
• Cardboard
• Spiral wire
• Rubberband

At the Kochi airport(last day of our Kerala trip), Rig & me went to the toilet for the second time. Rig came to the same pot and said, ‘ah the same place again, so how are you?’ Then while leaving he pretended he was sobbing & said, ‘I ll never see u again!’

Later he came up with a new philosophy: Some people prefer to learn from the consequences rather than the warning!

Rig saw th word queue at th airport & noticed that the word has only one consonant and four vowels

Later in th flight we had 2 aisle seats & 1 window seat faraway so we requested the window seat guy next to th aisle seats to exchange his seat with us which he readily agreed to. Later the same guy learnt that the window seat we had given him was occupied by a firang couple who like us wanted to sit together & had one first class & a economy class… They offered him the first class seat and he happily took it. Rig saw all this and said, its true… One good deed deserves another

Rigved was brushing up with divisibility of numbers when we stumbled upon the divisibility test for 7(i never knew it). A number is divisible by 7 when: The last digit is doubled and subtracted from the other digits and the answer is either 0 or divisible by 7. This all fine and dandy with a number like 343, where 34 – (3*2) = 28, so its easy to say its divisible by 7. But if the number is a 6 digit number, then I was wondering I d still need a calculator. I had given a 5 digit number to Rig to see if he could use the divisibility test for 7 on it. To my surprise he doubled the last digit and subtracted it from the remaining numbers. Now he was left with a 4 digit number. SO he repeated the test on this 4 digit number and continued to do this till he was left with a manageable number!

I was quite pleased with the display of presence of mind. On further thought I realized that when a number is divisible by a prime number, it means that the prime number is a factor of that number being tested. Taking this example further, I felt that Rig is divisible by all that is good, which in other words means, he is a prime factor of all that is good.