Here’s a Problem
It is a matter of birthdays — and you can be pretty sure of bewildering your friends with it, Get one of them to put down the number of the month in which he was born. Get him to Multiply it by 2. Add 5. Multiply by 50. | Now add his age, Subtract 365. Add 115, Now take the amount that is left. from the sum, The two figures to the right will tell you his age. The remainder will tell you the month of his birth. Here is an example: The amount is, say, 614. Well then, he is 14 years old and he was born in June — the 6th month.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 24, 8 December 1939, Page 34
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114Here’s a Problem New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 24, 8 December 1939, Page 34
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