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An old Chinese general led his army to a river with a steep bank. Standing atop the bank, he held a stick 6 feet long perpendicular to himself.
One says that 10 garments were purchased by two men at a price of 72 dirhams. The garments varied in value. The price of each garment of one man is 3 dirhams more than the price for each garment of the other. How many garments did each man buy?
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A survey of over two thousand years of the history of mathematics on the Indian subcontinent.
Boyer's classic text, as revised by Uta Merzbach, is still worth having.
A ladder is placed perpendicular to the plane of the horizon, and in coincidence with the plane of an upright wall.
A father wills his estate valued at $40, 000 to his three children. Before the settlement one of the children dies. What should the other two receive? A teacher agreed to teach 9 months for$562.50 and his board. At the end of the term, on account of two months absence caused by sickness, he received only \$409.50. What was his board worth per month?
Imagine an urn with two balls, each of which may be either white or black. One of these balls is drawn and is put back before a new one is drawn.
Relationships between Architecture and Mathematics