4 Pints from 5 Pints and 3 Pints/Historical Note
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Historical Note on $4$ Pints from $5$ Pints and $3$ Pints
This problem appears for the first time in Triparty en la Science des Nombres of $1484$, by Nicolas Chuquet.
It has appeared in anthologies of puzzles and problems of recreational mathematics countless times since.
Sources
- 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Liquid Pouring: $97$