“Let’s see, if you please, how you would describe this coin?” (l = 5, s = 0.)
“I see a fifty-cent piece.”
“The piece seems new?” (t = 1, p = 9, s = 0, n = 2.)
“The date is 1902.”
Holding out a handful of money, containing say, a five-dollar gold piece, two fifty-cent pieces, four quarters, and five cents in copper,
The Professor says, “Tell this, if you please, the number of coins in my hand?” (t = 1, t = 1.)
“Eleven,” answers Mlle. C.
“True. Now, Mademoiselle, if you please, tell me the nature of it?” (t = 1 = gold, n = 2 = silver, m = 3 = copper.)
“Gold, silver, and copper.”
“Leaving, if you please, the others, let us start with the gold.”