Liber Abaci/Problems/Lion, Leopard and Bear/Historical Note
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Historical Note on The Lion, the Leopard and the Bear
As pointed out by John Fauvel and Jeremy Gray in their The History of Mathematics: A Reader of $1987$, this is a "more gory version" of the cistern problem, as seen for example in the Greek Anthology Book $\text {XIV}$, no. $132$.
Instead of $3$ pipes pouring water into a pool at given rates, $3$ animals remove flesh from a sheep at different rates.
Sources
- 1987: John Fauvel and Jeremy Gray: The History of Mathematics: A Reader: $\text {7.A}$: The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
- 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Liber Abaci: $89$