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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $28$
- A Farthings Puzzle
- Find a sum of money expressed in pounds, shillings and pence
- which, when you take the currency indicators and punctuation away, reads the number that you get when you reduce the sum to farthings.
- For example, $\pounds 10, 10 \shillings 7 \oldpence$ is $10 \, 108$ farthings which is exactly one farthing out.
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Money Puzzles: $28$. -- A Farthings Puzzle