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1913 illustration of the riddle by Arthur Rackham "As I was going to St Ives" (Roud 19772) is a traditional English-language nursery rhyme in the form of a riddle. The most common modern version is: 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:
Since the narrator met a man with seven wives, he could not be one of those kits, cats, sacks, or wives. Because of the way those sentences are worded, the narrator nor the man are included in the people going to St. Ives. In the end, the riddle has no answer, as we do not know the current position of the kits, cats, sacks or wives.
The date when this compilation was originally made is uncertain, and the dates of individual riddles even less clear: the oldest may go back to Archaic Greek, the youngest to Byzantine; [7] but the emergence of the compilation in its present form is generally associated with Constantine Cephalas, working in the tenth century. [8]
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Its language is strongly suggestive of the more modern riddle and nursery rhyme "As I was going to St Ives". [1] Problems 80 and 81 compute Horus eye fractions of hinu (or heqats). The last four mathematical items, problems 82, 82B and 83–84, compute the amount of feed necessary for various animals, such as fowl and oxen. [2]