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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $46$
- A Square Family
- A man had nine children, all born at regular intervals,
- and the sum of the squares of their ages was equal to the square of his own.
- What were the ages of each?
- Every age was an exact number of years.
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Age and Kinship Puzzles: $46$. -- A Square Family
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Age Puzzles: $41$. A Square Family