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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> Newsgroups: rec.puzzles,sci.lang Subject: The "Strand" puzzle Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:07:56 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: <v7u7qd$2dgbs$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 21:07:58 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="be2b234bfa2143e0550cef89b86e2090"; logging-data="2539900"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18nHHIR3QorILXztFUAuaDLocRHFXoPYS4=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:T6i2GcSlydcw3Q78vtqRJCNJ944= Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 1492 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.