Sujet : The "Strand" puzzle
De : HenHanna (at) *nospam* devnull.tb (HenHanna)
Groupes : rec.puzzles sci.langDate : 25. Jul 2024, 20:07:56
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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.