From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10/19/01 9:48:51 AM
> And finally a quick riddle, where you have to work out > the age of Diophantus, > > "Here lies Diophantus," the wonder behold . . . > Through art algebraic, the stone tells how old: > "God gave him his boyhood one-sixth of his life, > One twelfth more as youth while whiskers grew rife; > And then yet one-seventh ere marriage begun; > In five years there came a bouncing new son. > Alas, the dear child of master and sage > After attaining half the measure of his fathers life > chill fate took him. > After consoling his fate by this science of numbers for > four years, > he ended his life." S P O I L E R S P A C E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . He was 84 when he died. Dave... -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> "Let me see you make decisions, without your television" - Depeche Mode (Stripped)
