DOT AND CARRY ONE

[FUJI]

Shooting against the light the other day, offered lots of creative opportunities...then this happened...

 

I love...Street Photography.

 

FUJI

[Ryewolf]

Well spotted FUJI

[Korky]

Ya know summat, Fooj? I can't for the life of me work out the title.

Go on, explain.

Korky

[FUJI]

3 minutes ago, Korky said:

Ya know summat, Fooj? I can't for the life of me work out the title.

Go on, explain.

Korky

Your reply Sir Korks.....as culled from the Internet...

You’re right with your suggestion of long division, though it also relates to addition and subtraction. It refers to a way of doing arithmetic that was taught to children from the eighteenth century down into living memory. To dot and carry one means to set down the units in a column and to carry over the tens to the next column of figures. The method was to put one dot in the next column for every ten that you wanted to carry, as a reminder.

An early reference was in a book that tried to make learning the techniques of arithmetic more palatable by setting them to music. One stanza refers to the way to add up columns of money in pounds, shillings and pence (the carries are twelves here, because 12 pence made a shilling in old British money):

Still add to these the pence, sir,
On the left if you are willing.
And then mind when you be at the top right under D,
That every twelve’s a shilling.
The odd pence must go down, sir,
Or nought if you have none,
Or for every twelve that you had in the pence
You may dot and carry one.

 

I was taught arithmetic this  way as an infant/junior during WWII 

The title just floated into my old head.

we didn’t use finger’s...like they did in Chorley

 

[Korky]

Chorley Gawpers (as we're known in these parts) never did no book learnin'. Especially sums.

Bloody hell, Fooj, we still hold our trousers up with string and stand in little groups to point at them new-fangled aeroplanes heading to foreign parts (Blackpool).

Korky

[Clicker]

 I can vouch Lanky Lad and all of the above statement too Fooj ...

[FUJI]

EEEEEEEEE !! ‘‘Tis foreign parts up theer.

 

 

FUJI