Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/112 - Simple Division

Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $112$

Simple Division

There is a simple division sum.

Can you restore it by substituting a figure for every asterisk, without altering or removing the sevens?

If you start out with the assumption that all the sevens are given, and that you must not use another,

you will attempt an impossibility, though the proof is difficult;

but when you are told that though no additional sevens may be used in divisor, dividend or quotient,

any number of extra sevens may be used in the working.

It is comparatively easy.

             **7**
       -----------
 ****7*)**7*******
        ******
        -------
        *****7*
        *******
        -------
          *7****
          *7****
          -------
          *******
           ***7**
          --------
            ******
            ******
            ------

Sources

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