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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $145$
- The Printer's Problem
- A printer had an order for $10 \, 000$ bill forms per month,
- but each month the name of the particular month had to be altered:
- that is, he printed $10 \, 000$ "JANUARY", $10 \, 000$ "FEBRUARY", $10 \, 000$ "MARCH", etc.;
- but as the particular types with which these words were to be printed had to be specially obtained, and were expensive,
- he only purchased just enough movable types to enable him, by interchanging them,
- to print in turn the whole of the months of the year.
- How many separate types did he purchase?
- Of course, the words were printed throughout in capital letters, as shown.
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Various Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: $145$. -- The Printer's Problem
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Miscellaneous Puzzles: $217$. The Printer's Problem