Fiction “A centipede is crawling across a road with a velocity of one foot per minute. There are vehicles plying on the road at the rate of one per five minutes. The vehicles are of various widths like bikes, cars and buses. What is the probability of the centipede crossing the road alive?” “Nil,” said Rohan without even thinking for a moment. Radhakrishna, the mathematics teacher, was stupefied. He had expected the brilliant student to sit and apply some formulas. What is mathematics without formulas? Radhakrishna had given the problem to Rohan in order to keep him quiet in the class. Rohan was an ADHD student according to the counsellor of the school. He needed a lot of attention. ADHD means that, hai na? Attention Deficit? So the loving and caring mathematics teacher gave him all the attention he could. He gave him all the problems that his knowledge of mathematics could create. He was particularly fond of algebra and Rohan turned
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