summerschild: (♜ lend a mending hand)

[personal profile] summerschild 2016-07-01 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
How many inches is four hundred feet?

[He looks up at the trees. They look a lot taller than the distance to that stick...]
geonomy: (☆ hope is a four-letter word)

[personal profile] geonomy 2016-07-01 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[The kid's so eager to learn, and Clay loves that. He grins, then turns to start walking carefully again. Gonna be a much longer walk!]

Alright, so let's go over it again. How many inches are in a foot?
summerschild: (♜ holy light oh burn the night)

[personal profile] summerschild 2016-07-01 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Twelve.

[He thinks, and thinks.]

Twelve, but four times, and then you... carry the zeroes?
geonomy: (☆ sink in the river)

[personal profile] geonomy 2016-07-01 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, exactly! You leave the zeroes off until you multiply twelve times four.

So, what is twelve times four?
summerschild: (♜ let me hear you sing)

[personal profile] summerschild 2016-07-01 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[There are no multiplication tables in Westeros - only sums - so it takes him several moments to add up all the twelves in his head. But finally, he looks up at Clay hesitantly.]

Forty... eight?
geonomy: (☆ but baby i've been praying hard)

[personal profile] geonomy 2016-07-01 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[And he rewards Bran with a beaming smile, and for a second, he takes moves his supporting arm to give Bran's hair a ruffle before he goes back to holding the wheelchair properly.]

That's it! Twelve times four is forty-eight!

Now, all we do is add the zeroes to the end of it. And since there's two zeroes in one-hundred...
summerschild: (♜ oh keep the spirits strong)

[personal profile] summerschild 2016-07-02 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Forty-eight hundred inches!

[He looks very pleased with himself.]