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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $322$
- The New Gun
- An inventor undertook that a new gun which he had manufactured, which when once loaded,
- would fire fifteen shots at the rate of a shot a minute.
- A series of tests were made, and the gun certainly fired fifteen shots in a quarter of an hour.
- However, the Government refused to buy the gun, on the grounds that it did not do the job as advertised.
- Why?
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Unclassified Problems: $322$. -- The New Gun