Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/153 - A Military Puzzle

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 * A Military Puzzle
 * An officer wished to form his men into $12$ rows, with $11$ men in every row,
 * so that he could place himself at a point that would be equidistant from every row.


 * ''"But there are only one hundred and twenty of us, sir," said one of the men.


 * Was it possible to carry out the order?