“人不可貌相”有道理,但“海水不可斗量”却未必。曹冲称象可以算是我国古代一个经典的智慧佳话,三国时期五六岁大的曹冲在称大象体重的难题面前,采用了灵活变通的办法解决了难题。他把大象放到船上,先测量船的吃水深度,接着用石头代替大象,也达到大象在船上的吃水深度,最后再称石头的总重量,结果就得到了大象的体重。 “Man looks out of shape ” makes sense, but “sea can not be struggling ” is not necessarily. Cao Chong said the statue can be regarded as a classic wisdom story in ancient China. Cao Chong, a 56-year-old big boy in the Three Kingdoms period, adopted a flexible and flexible solution to the difficult problem of weighing elephants. He placed the elephant on the ship, measured the draft of the ship first, then replaced the elephant with stone, and reached the depth of the elephant’s draft on the ship. Finally, the total weight of the stone, the result was the weight of the elephant.