[dba-Tech] OT: Friday brain-teaser

 84. (Used to help my son to solve 5th grade math tasks.)


Пятница, 11 января 2013, 16:04 -05:00 от Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>:
>This is a very old problem concerning an ancient Greek whose name I won't
>mention, since that might enable you to simply Google and obtain the answer.
>
>His boyhood last 1/6th of his life; his beard grew after 1/12th more; he
>married after 1/7th more, and his son was born five years later. The son
>lived to half his father's age, and the father died four years after his
>son. How old was the father?
>
>-- 
>Arthur
>
>The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is
>by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We
>cause accidents.
>
>-Nathaniel Borenstein< http://www.quoteland.com/author/Nathaniel-Borenstein-Quotes/63/ >
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