Dudeney's Property of 2592/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Dudeney's Property of 2592
This result is generally attributed to Henry Ernest Dudeney, who stated it in his $1917$ book Amusements in Mathematics.
It continues to crop up occasionally in puzzle pages of journals.
The term Dudeney's Property of 2592 was invented by $\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$ as a convenient shorthand for what would otherwise be tediously unwieldy.
As such, it is not generally expected to be seen in this context outside $\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$.
Sources
- 1917: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Amusements in Mathematics: Various Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: $115$. A Printer's Error
- 1933: Raphael M. Robinson: E69 (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 40: p. 607) www.jstor.org/stable/2301693
- 1934: C.W. Trigg: E69 (solution) (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 41: p. 332) www.jstor.org/stable/2301005
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $2592$
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $2592$