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Whewell's Puzzle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2008

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Mr J. F. Cameron of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, has suggested the use of factorial functions such as or n! to solve Whewell's problem. I had excluded them as beyond the bounds of ordinary arithmetic. I append half a score of my attempts with the factorials; they could be easily increased.

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