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The following story of a king and his wise jester may or may not be germane to the problem that follows but it's fun. One day a scholar came to the court of king Akbar and challenged Birbal to answer his questions and thus prove that he was as clever as people said he was. He asked Birbal: "Would you prefer to answer a hundred easy questions or just a single difficult one?" Both the king and Birbal had had a diffi-cult day and were impatient to leave. "Ask me one difficult question," said Birbal. "Well, then tell me," said the man, "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" "The chicken," replied Birbal, confidently. "How do you know?" asked the scholar, with a note of triumph.
Birbal said, "You said you'd ask me only one difficult question, so why are you asking two now?" Then he and the king walked away leaving the scholar gaping.
"Find me the smallest integer that consists of only digits 3, 5 and 7," said another king to his jester. "How simple," said the jester. "But," continued the king, "this number should be divisible by 3, 5 and 7." The jester suddenly looked serious. "And finally," remarked the king, "the sum of the digits of this number should be divisible by 3, 5 and 7." The jester appeared miserable. "Solution by tomorrow morning," added the king. "Or you must marry my widowed mother-in-law." Unlike Birbal, this jester was crushed.
DEAR MS
(The problem concerned a mathematical card trick with an unasked question which, I'm happy to say, has been successively unmasked thereafter. - MS
Face-Value-Dept:
This trick works on arithmetic. First you deal 12 cards from the shuffled pack. Then four cards with face values, say a, b, c and d are chosen from them. After that 10 - a cards are placed on a, 10 - b on b, 10 - c on c and 10 - d on d, in effect removing 40 - (a + b + c = d) cards and leaving 52 - (12 + 40 - (a + b + c = d)) = (a + b + c + d) cards in the pack. Therefore, when the third person turns over the (a + b + c + d)th card, it will be the 52nd card, which was at the bottom of the pack after it was shuffled and placed on the table. Now, the magic lies in unobtrusively observing the bottom card and writing it on a piece of paper.
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