]]>http://www.mathisfunforum.com/profile.php?id=337902013-06-10T05:29:12Zhttp://www.mathisfunforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=273519#p273519I've worked it out backwards, but could someone please help me with the algebraic working?
I'm getting stuck on finding an LCD...should it be 28?
]]>http://www.mathisfunforum.com/profile.php?id=2017772013-06-10T01:08:29Zhttp://www.mathisfunforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=273511#p273511That was a nice puzzle, uzurpatorul!
It took a bit of head-scratching before I could find an algebraic solution, but I finally got there.
]]>http://www.mathisfunforum.com/profile.php?id=337902009-07-20T06:41:57Zhttp://www.mathisfunforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=115815#p115815Diophantus, the Greek mathematician known as the "Father of Algebra", supposedly had the following inscribed on his tombstone: "Diophantus passed 1/6th of his life in childhood, 1/12th in youth, and 1/7th more as a bachelor. Five years after his marriage, there was born a son who died four years before his father, at half his father's age."