Ah, let me tell you something, ten people sitting ’round a big table, round like a wheel, just sitting there and shaking hands. You know how it goes, when folks get together, first thing they do is reach out, grab each other’s hands, shake it good and proper. Now, this ain’t no small talk, let me tell ya, it’s a lot of shaking, I say.
So, picture it now, one fella sits down, he stretches his hand to the left, then the right. If there’s ten of ’em sitting there, every one of ’em’s gonna shake hands with eight others – now don’t count the two next to ’em, those don’t get a handshake, ’cause who’d be twisting ’round that much?
Now, let me say this plain and simple: there ain’t no point counting double. If one person shakes hands with another, that’s one shake done and dusted. You count ’em all careful-like, and you’ll see that in total, they do about 40 shakes. How’s that? Easy math when you think ’bout it.
- Each person skips their left and right neighbors, so only shakes hands with eight.
- To make sure no handshakes get counted twice, you divide ’em by two.
Now, what happens if you count the whole round-up? Well, you’d think with 10 of ’em, and each shakin’ with 8 others, you’d get 80. But that’s countin’ twice, you see. So, 80 cut in half is 40 proper handshakes. That’s what you get when 10 folks sit down and shake all ‘round, skipping them sittin’ right next to ’em.
Now you might wonder, why do they sit in a circle? Well, that’s just how people do, round the fire or table, closer for talking and reachin’. Shakes are fair that way, nobody’s left out, and it’s like how village folk gather. You don’t just sit in rows for a handshake, no, sir!
So, to sum it up real nice: when ten sit ‘round, each one skips the neighbors, hands get shaken till there’s 40 all told. No double counting, no fuss. Just good old-fashioned math done simple.
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