Foot whipping Foot whipping Foot whipping or bastinado is a method of corporal punishment which consists of hitting the soles of a person's bare feet. Unlike most types of flogging, this punishment was meant to be more painful than it was to cause actual injury to the victim. Blows were generally delivered with a light rod, knotted cord, or lash. The receiving person is required to be barefoot. The uncovered soles of the feet need to be placed in an exposed position. The beating is typically performed with an object in the type of a cane or switch. The strokes are usually
Of the form Of the form In mathematics, the phrase "of the form" indicates that a mathematical object, or (more frequently) a collection of objects, follows a certain pattern of expression. It is frequently used to reduce the formality of mathematical proofs. Here is a proof which should be appreciable with limited mathematical background: "Statement:" The product of any two even natural numbers is also even. "Proof:" Any even natural number is of the form "2n", where "n" is any natural number. Therefore, let us assume that we have two even numbers which we will denote by "2k" and "2l". Their product is