 | Margherita Giromini, Albertina Guglielmetti - 2003 - 66 str.
...nanna Rock-a-bye baby, your cradle is green, your father is rich, your mother's a queen. Indovinello As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives: Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kittens: Kitten, cats, sacks and wives: How many were... | |
 | 2003 - 268 str.
...different from the one below that the author learned from her mother.). "As I Was Going to St. Ives" As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks. Each sack had seven cats. Each cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives. How many were going... | |
 | Barbara Vesey - 2003 - 382 str.
...castles and abbeys. Also on show are toys and models made by prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars. 'As 1 was going to St Ives I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks and wives, how many were going... | |
 | I. Grattan-Guinness - 2003 - 980 str.
...(1202). Such problems are discussed by Biggs 1979, who compares them with the wellknown nursery rhyme 'As I was going to St Ives, I met a man with seven wives . . . ' . Another type of problem which has a long history is that of constructing magic squares. The... | |
 | Edward Duffy, Lorraine Mottershead, G. Murty - 2003 - 556 str.
...This famous poem is derived from an Egyptian papyrus over 3500 years old: As I was going to St Ivés I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks; Each sack had seven cats; Each cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks and wives; How many were going... | |
 | Margaret Y. Chu - 2004 - 264 str.
...Light at the End of the Tunnel? Glossary 229 References 237 Index 239 About the Author 245 Preface As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going... | |
 | Jr. McElfresh - 2004 - 170 str.
...religions may teach". John Leo, US News & World Report, 7/1/02 A child's nursery rhyme, Going to St. Ives: As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kittens. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, how many were going... | |
 | Ivan Moscovich - 2004 - 136 str.
...Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci) published the rhyme in 7202 in his Liber Abaci. The rhyme is as follows: "As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Every wife had seven sacks. Every sack had seven cats. Every cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks,... | |
 | Richard Powers - 2004 - 340 str.
...singsong nursery rhyme that, for reasons that I've long since forgotten, I'd used to open my first novel. "As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives . . ." I stumbled and hung up on the lines. Harold reminded me how they went, and I got all the way... | |
 | Mario Livio - 2005 - 367 str.
...millennium later still, in the eighteenth-century Mother Goose collection of nursery rhymes, we find: As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Every cat had seven kits; Kits, cats, sacks,... | |
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As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Every cat had seven kits — Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives? 
