{"id":630,"date":"2018-05-27T17:16:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T21:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=630"},"modified":"2018-05-27T17:16:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T21:16:53","slug":"the-fishermans-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"The Fisherman\u2019s Catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHow many fish have you caught today, Captain Codworthy?\u201d queried Samuel Nibbs, the bookkeeper of the Acme Fishing Enterprise, as the Aurora docked at the quay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More than yesterday, I hope,&#8221;\u00a0he sneered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there had been five times as many as there really are, I would have had just as many over 99 as I now have below it,\u201d replied Captain Codworthy and left the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Nibbs was left nonplussed, fingers confusedly tapping buttons on his calculator.<\/p>\n<p><em>Can you work out how many fish Captain Codworthy caught that 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