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Subject: Re: The "Strand" puzzle
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:37:49 +0000
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On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 19:07:56 +0000, HenHanna wrote:

>
> e.g. -------- For the (street)  Numbers (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)
>
>                          (1,2,3,4,5)  and  (7,8)  both add up to 15.
>
>
>
> “In a given street of houses with consecutive numbers between 50 and
> 500, find the house number, for which, the sum of numbers on the left is
> equal to the sum of numbers on the right”
>
>
>
>   Ramanujan and Strand Puzzle
>
>             this was a very interesting puzzle tackled by the genius
> Srinivasa Ramanujan.        In the year 1914, P.C. Mahalanobis, a Kings
> college student in England, got hold of a puzzle from the Strand
> magazine.

Solution found at:
https://ubpdqnmathematica.wordpress.com/2021/12/05/ramanujan-and-strand-puzzle/