Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/244 - Sharing a Grindstone
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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $244$
- Sharing a Grindstone
- Three men bought a grindstone $20$ inches in diameter.
- How much must each grind off so as to share the stone equally,
- making an allowance of $4$ inches off the diameter as waste for the aperture?
- We are not concerned with the unequal value of the shares for practical use --
- only with the actual equal quantity of stone each receives.
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Various Geometrical Puzzles: $244$. -- Sharing a Grindstone
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