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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $53$
- Finding a Birthday
- A correspondent informs us incidentally that on Armistice Day (Nov. 11, 1928)
- he would have lived as long in the $20$th century as he lived in the $19$th.
- This tempted us to work out the day of his birth.
- Perhaps the reader may like to do the same.
- We will assume he was born at midday.
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Age and Kinship Puzzles: $53$. -- Finding a Birthday
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Age Puzzles: $43$. Finding a Birthday