June 25, 2007

Math mutt inspires faith

In the center of the living room, a brown dog stared, as if in deep thought.

Stan Tuten held up a board and scribbled down a basic algebra problem:

If a=2, and b=3, what is axb-1?

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The dog stared at the food, then tapped Tuten's palm five times.

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To prove this wasn't a fluke, the couple and a friend tossed out more math than teachers during exam time. Micah consistently pawed the correct answers, appearing to solve such problems as square root division, finding the numerators and denominators of fractions, multiplying and dividing, even basic algebra.

"He can calculate problems given in English, Spanish, French and German," Cindy Tuten said.

Read the rest on the mathematical ability of this dog.

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