How do taxi cab drivers use math?
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They Dont Multipy In Their Head On Tha Spot They Use A Meter To See How Much You Hav To Pay.\n\nIf You Do It Long Enough They Man Giv U A Round About Amount Depending On How Long Tha Trip Is.
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No it's not really, but you're meant to write it down in slightly increasing size ie: small 1 through to large 4. It's a psychological test. people avoid choosing 1 & 4 because they're too obvious in extremes and two is weeny, so that only leaves 3 which conveniently fits quite well. \nI've made quite a lot of money in pubs 'reading' people's minds with this trick
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Probably say nothing and hope it wasn't dirty money. If you told the taxi cab person they would just keep it (better me). Wasn't there some show on dateline or 20/20 were they left things in the back of taxi cabs (and such) to see if people were honest.
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A man in a taxi cab taps the driver on the shoulder to ask him a question. The driver screams bloody murder, loses control of the cab, and swerves onto the sidewalk before stopping just inches from a lamppost.\n\nAfter checking to make sure the passenger is OK, the driver says "I'm sorry, but you scared the daylights out of me!"\n\n"Sorry. I didn't realize a simple tap on the shoulder would freak you out so much," the passenger says.\n\n"It's not your fault," replies the cabbie.\n\n"Today is my first day on the job after 25 years of driving a hearse."
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they study animal using math alot. stuff  like graph and measureing.
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some calculators can do this\n\nmathematica software will do it
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How are you even sure that such a function exists? the numbers look very random.
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Yiu would first decide how many decimal places you are going to consider.  The usual is 3.  Then work it from there...;
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There is a mathmatical equation for the Eiffel tower...this way you have a visual that everyone knows and the info is on-line
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http://cts-umsl.org/regulatory/Taxicab/kansas%20city%20MO.doc
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many\n\nsome are equations involving the mass and momentum of the vehicles and how fast and destructive and forceful a vehicle was when it hit another car or object.   \n\nother equations involve friction calculations.  so the cops can figure out how fast you were going based on how long the skidmarks were that you left.\n\nother equations are similar in that they may just figure out your speed from the trajectory of your vehicle, or say, how fast did they hit that bump in order to cause the car to hit 8 feet up in the tree.
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http://members.cox.net/mathmistakes/what_is_mathematics3.htm\n\n\nAfter an introductory chapter, Devlin has two chapters devoted to what psychologists know about how our brain does math. It follows that old genetics vs. environment argument; some of our math ability comes naturally, though the majority is learned.\n\nChapter 2 is devoted to fairly new ideas about our natural ability to do basic math such as counting. It seems from birth we have the ability to understand the difference between one, two, three, and many. Psychologists have confirmed this through rather clever testing of infants as young as four weeks old. \n\nFor example, one test involved showing babies a series of puppets going behind a curtain. The testers show the babies a couple of puppets going one at a time behind a curtain. The curtain is then lifted. If there are one or three puppets revealed behind the curtain, the babies will stare longer at the puppets than if there are only two puppets, which is what the baby expects. Babies stare longer at things that do not make sense to them, so when they see two puppets  go behind a curtain, they expect two puppets when the curtain is dropped.\n\nA basic inherent "number sense" is not just a human trait, it has been confirmed in mammals and birds as well. There is an old story about a bird that was nesting in a tower, and the owners of the tower wanted to get rid of it. When they sent someone into the tower to capture the bird, the bird would leave to a nearby tree and would not return to the tower until the man left. So they came up with a clever plan of sending two men into the tower, then soon after one man left, but the bird stayed in the tree and would not return to the tower until it saw both men leave: it saw two men enter, and it waited until both men were gone. They tried again with three, same thing. They tried with four, same thing. Finally, it got confused with five men entering the tower and four men leaving, the fifth man was able to capture the bird.\n\nI can attest to the fact that this number sense also exists in cats. I have a cat, and sometimes I give her some kitty treats just before I leave (this distracts her so I can go out without her darting outside). If I toss three treats on the floor with my cat watching, she will systematically go after all three treats. If I toss five, she will get three easily, then she has to sniff around and search for the others; she knows there are more than three. If she finds one, she may stop looking, because she lost track of how many I threw. \n\nSo the number sense is a naturally occurring ability of knowing one, two, three, and many. It is an instinct developed for survival. Many primitive human languages actually only have words for one, two, three, and many. Remnants of this can be found in English, like the ordinal numbers first, second, and third. Later ordinals fourth through twentieth all have identical endings, which makes the first three ordinals unique.
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set up variables for everything.\n\nFor example: 7200 cars.  3200 four seaters.  then the rest is 7200-3200=4000 six seaters.  the 4 seaters are 100% full so 40000 people.  the total is 80% full thats 80%*(4000*6 + 3200*4) etc
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MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM\nMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM\nMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMCCXXXVI\n\nor cMCCXXXVI\n\ndepending on wich calculator you use =)\n\ni guess LOVECAT was right ...
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Taxi is short for taxicab. Taxicab is short for taximeter cab. Taximeter is a device that automatically records the distance traveled and calculates the fare payable. The abbreviation for teh name of the device that allowed a per mile charge eventually became the common name for the transporation.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indefinite_and_fictitious_large_numbers\n\nlook at that
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It's odd that you ask this question cos I am positive that, all things being equal, mathematicians are able to calculate their final day.  I have heard that they have secret meetings in a place known only as Pascal's Triangle. While enjoying apple cider and pi they discuss factors and variables and plot their finite days on the X-Y axis.\n  *  There is an acute case of irrational subtracting going on here. It is a bad sine.