G'morning Aleksej, 

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That gives me the picture - clearly, thank you.
You need to be a bit of an artist to make up the puzzle - and 
imaginative to solve it.

Ever heard of Martin Gardner ?  He was the long-term puzzle 
columnist of "Scientifc American",  and wrote several books about 
his collection of mind-benders;  although I'm basically British, I 
have always been an avid SciAm reader - and a devout follower of 
Gardner and his successors.

One of the oldest conumdrums he came up with involves an Arab 
family whose head dies,  leaving one half of his 17 camels to his 
eldest son, one sixth of them to his middle son and one ninth to 
his youngest son.

After the funeral and wake,  the family are deep in argument over 
the will and desparate for ways of cutting up one or more camels 
without killing them.

Then a wise man rides into their oasis,  listens to their plight, 
meditates over the food and drink they give him ... and neatly 
divides up the herd to fulfill the will - in complete camels.

Satisfied with his solution,  he rides off again into the desert 
in search of bigger challenges ... leaving which son with how many 
camels ?

Apparently, according to Gardner, this problem dates back some 
5,000 years to the ancient Arab mathematicians ... and is 
satisfyingly neat.

:-)

 ARS> DOS is good only because Windows is worse, IMHO. ;)

C/PM and Assembler are better ... if you've got a Z80 chip 
handy...

 
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