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Swedish math test
If any of you guys or gals here on RTB are swedish, no offense intended.
A man wanted a job, but the foreman wouldn't hire him until he passed a little math test. 'Here's your first question,' the foreman said. 'Without using numbers, represent the number 9.'
'Witout da numbers,' the Swede said. 'Well, ya, I tink dat's easy.' He proceeded to draw three trees.
'What's this?' the boss asked. 'Have you got no brain?
'Tree and tree and tree make a nine,' said the Swede.
'Fair enough,' said the boss. 'Here's your second question. Use the same rules, but this time the number is 99.'
The Swede stared into space for a while, then picked up the picture that he had just drawn and makes a smudge on each tree. 'Vell, ya, here you go now.'
The boss scratched his head and said, 'How on earth do you get that to represent 99?'
'Vell, ya, each off da trees is dirty now. See? So, it's dirty tree, and dirty tree, and dirty tree. Dat's 99.'
The boss was getting worried that he was going to have to actually hire this goofy Swede, so he said, 'All right, last question. Same rules again, but represent the number 100.'
The Swede stared into space some more, thought how glad he was to have had lots of coffee with his breakfast, then picked up the picture again, made a little mark at the base of each tree and said, 'So. Here you go, ya? Dat's one hunnert.'
The boss looked at the attempt. 'You must be nuts if you think that represents a hundred!'
The Swede leaned forward, pointed to the marks at the base of each tree and said, 'A little dog came along and crapped by each tree. So now you got a dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd and dirty tree and a turd. Ya? So dat makes one hunnert. So, vhen do I start?'
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