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Historical Note on Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes by Alcuin of York: Problem $53$: De Homine Patrefamilias Monasterii $\text {XII}$ Monachorum
It is suggested that this problem has been corrupted.
It feels as though it ought to be a one hundred fowls problem, but the answer is provided as part of the question.
The answer looks as though the scribe is bewilderedly wondering if it be a trick question.
Compare it with Problem $47$: De Episcopo qui Jussit XII Panes in Clero Dividi.
Sources
- c. 800: Alcuin of York: Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes
- 1992: John Hadley/2 and David Singmaster: Problems to Sharpen the Young (Math. Gazette Vol. 76, no. 475: pp. 102 – 126) www.jstor.org/stable/3620384