Turns out it was really good at reading people. It would notice the subtle changes in facial expressions as it tapped the correct number of times. When the horse and participant were blocked by a partition, it couldn’t math anymore.
I too math better with thunderous applause.
The modern version of this trick is bunny the dog, that dog that “talks” by pushing buttons.
Wikipedia Link. He died in WWI :(
Good lord a mathematician and a soldier.
I guess there were a few different horses that could do this because my first reaction was “I thought his name was Hans?”
That’s nothing, once I went through the desert on a horse with no name.
Well, how was it? Do you any good?
I suppose it felt good to go out in the rain.
And, what of it? Were you able to remember details about yourself?
No, but it’s not like there were a lot of people around giving me a hard time about it
Calculators are a fucking joke, you can’t even ride them or feed them carrots.
How else would he extract the cube root of numbers if not mentally?
From human body language. Which is in all likelihood what it was.
Get out of here with your “facts” and “logic” horsemath hater!
Pencil and paper. Or a calculator. Obviously. My CPA is a horse. Loves stomping around on his giant TI83.
STOP limiting horses.
Perhaps the leg was possessed.
