Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/52 - In the Year 1900

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 * In the Year $1900$
 * A correspondent proposes the following question.
 * The reader may think, at first sight, that there is insufficient data for an answer, but he will be wrong:


 * A man's age at death was one-twenty-ninth of the year of his birth.
 * ''How old was he in the year $1900$?