A man leaves a $100,000 dollar bill on his desk and leaves work. When he returns the money is gone. He has three suspects: the cook, the cleaning lady, and the mail guy. The cook says he put the money under a book on his desk to keep it safe. They check and it is no longer there. The maid says she moved it when she was cleaning to the inside of the book between page 1 and 2. They open the book and look between page number 1 and 2 but it isn't there. The mail guy says he saw it sticking out of the book and to keep it safe he moved it to between page number 2 and 3. Once they are done the culprit is promptly arrested. Who did it and how did he know?
THE MAILMAN IS LYING! If they could look between page 1 and 2, that would mean that when you open the book, page 1 is on your left side, while page 2 is on your right side, which means that page 3 of the book is on the underside of page 2, so there is no "between page 2 and 3" because page 2 and 3 are printed on both sides of one page!
???? I think Cherry has the right idea, but in books printed in the United States and England, the numbering convention is that when a page is spread open, you see even page numbers on the left and odd page numbers on the right.
If you look at the first illustration in the Wikipedia article,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recto_and_verso
you can see that in left-to-right languages, "between" pages 2 and 3 is possible, but "between" pages 1 and 2 is impossible.
Nice one Cherry, you are absolutely right!
Someone should write a book about this! :)
This is actually true. So in this case, the maid was obviously lying. My guess is, that the mail guy was also lying? So, did they steal the 100k$ bill together and split the money?
