Timeline for 17 camels trick
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| Jun 14, 2017 at 7:19 | comment | added | hanish singla | @GerryMyerson. . certainly. . As far I remember the tale, father was a merchant. It was a test for passing legacy to his children. Here in India, many tales of same kind are popular. In one story, dying father asked his son to always go to shop in shade (He meant go to shop before sunrise and return after sunset always). So mistook the advise by putting tents in the way and ruined business. | |
| Jun 13, 2017 at 6:58 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | So, you think the father worked out that the sons would need a wise old man to come along to help them? Then the father must have been an even better mathematician, to devise such a problem. | |
| Jun 13, 2017 at 5:34 | comment | added | hanish singla | @GerryMyerson. . . If you see the addition of partitions, its 17 out of 18. So these partitions were created according to number 17. 18 is LCM among partitions. If there were 16 camels, Father must have divided partitions according to number 16, so that addition must have become 16/{LCM} | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 23:44 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | He was also lucky. What would he have done, had the father left only 16 camels? or, indeed, any number other than a multiple of 17? | |
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