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By Ellie Olivier
There is a famous anecdote about a renowned mathematician, John von Neumann. A friend of Von Neumann gave him a problem to solve: two cyclist A and B, at a distance of 20 miles apa...
6th puzzle by Dr Harry Wiggins (Reverse fun)
Did you know 2178 x 4 = 8712?
Find all ten-digit numbers which becomes 9 times bigger if the order of the digits is reversed.
...5th puzzle by Dr Harry Wiggins (All in the family)
Nxolo has four children with different ages. The two daughters are Cindy and Letshego and the two sons have names Thabo and Zuma. Once, at a dinner...
4th puzzle by Dr Harry Wiggins (Money, money, money)
Two choices today. Solve either puzzle (a) or (b) and post your interesting comments.
(a) If in South Africa, you only get two types of coins: R1...
3rd puzzle by Dr Harry Wiggins (Complete the grid)
Fill in each space of the grid with one of the numbers 1, 2, . . . , 30, using each number once. For 1 ≤ n ≤ 29, the two spaces containing n and n +...