Rowing With and Against the Tide/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Rowing With and Against the Tide
David Wells reports in his Curious and Interesting Puzzles of $1992$ that this problem first appeared in an American textbook in $1788$.
He omits to inform us which.
Sources
- 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): The Vanishing Square Paradox: $145$