The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-02
GREAT CALCULATIONS.

A st. Louis exchange translated
from some Danish author his amazing
calculations, made merely, II would
seem, to exercise the mental faculties.
Here Is n calculation about cards that
addresses itself TO the consideration Of
the sporting fraternity:
Card-players, who are continually
bewailing their Ill luck of always re-
ceiving the same poor cards, will, per-
haps, he assured by knowing that the
lifty-two cards, with thirteen 10 each
of tho four players, Gun be distributed
In SO, GA, 737, 1865, lSS, 1902 $50, 257, ilO, 600
different ways, so there would be a
good stock OF combinations TO draw
from, even II man from Adams time
had devoted himself 10 no other oCcu-
patton than that Of playing cards.
one about minute infusoria:
Scientists tell US that there are In
fusoria so small that 10000, 100000 Of
such are found In one cubic inch Of
water. A ball the size Of the globe would
contain 2,420, 003, 900, 900, 600, 600, co.,
000, OO0, 000, 0OO, COO, or two teXtillions
four hundred and twenty-nine thou
sand and nlnety-three quintlllions Of
such animals.
One about light:
Light travels 10000 miles second,
thus using eight minutes and thirteen
seconds TO traverse the distance from
the sun to the earth. But to accom-
pish the distance from the surface OF
the aforesaid ball to its center, light
would need number of years written
with 1913, 23l ,0l2 figures.
A calculation Of wheat grains:
The story of the inventor Of the game
of chess is well known. The King of
India bade him name his own reward,
upon winch no asked TO receive the
number of grains of wheat that would
be produced If one grain Of wheat were
paid him for the first square of the
chess-board, two for the second four
for the third eight for the fourth, and
so on doubled up for every square of
the siXty.four. When these amounts
were added, the sum was found to be
Is, 446, IA ,O73, 100, 5jl, 6l5 of grains, or,
In other words, such quantity that
Herewith all the continents of the
earth could be covered with n layer
one'third Of an inch in thickness, and
that If the same ground were sown in
wheat in the proper manner, 1t would
take more than seventy years to pro-
duce the above amount of wheat, which
is equal to $4,000, 100000 bushels
Aud finally an enormous aggrega-
ton of figures In calculating the com
pound interest upon one cent from the
year to January /, 1866;
Ifone cent were set ont ut compound
interest In the year mt per cent, the
LIST of January, 1865, IL would amour {
to quintillion 20l ,45S quadrilions
332000 trillions of dollars. If we were
to take this sum as capital, and
would use its yearly interest a per
cent?, then the income tax we should
have to pay at the rate of per cent,
would be $50 quadrillions $50, 800 tril-
lions Of dollars. If we paid the tax
collector this sum in silver he would
need 3,O03,B5 ,O00, 600, 000, GOO wag-
ons for its transportation. Provided
the whole earth's surface, both land
and water, were peOpled MS closely as
possible, we should have but 100000
part of the drivers required, and the
line of wagons would have length of
s trillions $4,000 billions of miles.
The speed of light, as mentioned, is
10000 miles per second, and it would
take l43, GOO years to reach the collec-
tor, beginning at the furthest wagon,
If he, to have better control over the
wagons on both sides, stationed him
self in the centre of the line. Again,
a robbery could be committed on the
hindmost wagon which would not be
discovered till the 24,7S0 generation of
tax collectors. If, on the contrary, in
stead of using the interest of the capt.
tal--the bulk of which, by the by, in
gold would be equal to forty-four
globes--this capital were distributed
among the people of the earth, each
one Of its l,OO0,000,0O0 of inhabitants
would receive about 81 200, 900, 600 ,000,-
600 to live on, and could every second
use 50, 600, 600 for 3S,096,000 years with.
out reaching the bottom of his purse