Two Fathers and Two Sons Leaving Town/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Two Fathers and Two Sons Leaving Town
Eugene P. Northrop opens his Riddles in Mathematics of $1944$ with this riddle.
He takes care to categorise it as a paradox.
It is another instance of the Three Pheasants riddle, which appears in a work of Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia dating from the mid-$16$th century.