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Section: Various Arithmetical and Algebraic Problems

"Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor." COWPER: The Task.

Table of Contents

1. Problem: The Spot on the Table
2. Problem: Academic Courtesies
3. Problem: The Thirty-Three Pearls
4. Problem: The Laborer's Puzzle
5. Problem: The Trusses of Hay
6. Problem: Mr. Gubbins in a Fog
7. Problem: Painting the Lamp-Posts
8. Problem: Catching the Thief
9. Problem: The Parish Council Election
10. Problem: The Muddletown Election
11. Problem: The Suffragists' Meeting
12. Problem: The Leap-Year Ladies
13. Problem: The Great Scramble
14. Problem: The Abbot's Puzzle
15. Problem: Reeping the Corn
16. Problem: A Puzzling Legacy
17. Problem: The Torn Number
18. Problem: Curious Numbers
19. Problem: A Printer's Error
20. Problem: The Converted Miser
21. Problem: A Fence Problem
22. Problem: Circling the Squares
23. Problem: Rackbrane's Little Loss
24. Problem: The Farmer and His Sheep
25. Problem: Heads or Tails
26. Problem: The See-saw Puzzle
27. Problem: A Legal Difficulty
28. Problem: A Question of Definition
29. Problem: The Miners' Holiday
30. Problem: Simple Multiplication
31. Problem: Simple Division
32. Problem: A Problem in Squares
33. Problem: The Battle of Hastings
34. Problem: The Sculptor's Problem
35. Problem: The Spanish Miser
36. Problem: The Nine Treasure Boxes
37. Problem: The Five Brigands
38. Problem: The Banker's Puzzle
39. Problem: The Stonemason's Problem
40. Problem: The Sultan's Army
41. Problem: A Study in Thrift
42. Problem: The Artilleryman's Dilemma
43. Problem: The Dutchmen's Wives
44. Problem: Find Ada's Surname
45. Problem: Saturday Marketing

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1. Dudeney, H. E.: "Amusements in Mathematics", The Authors' Club, 1917

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