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   From: HenHanna@devnull.tb   
      
   e.g. -------- For the (street)  Numbers (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)   
      
                            (1,2,3,4,5)  and  (7,8)  both add up to 15.   
      
      
      
   “In a given street of houses with consecutive numbers between 50 and   
   500, find the house number, for which, the sum of numbers on the left is   
   equal to the sum of numbers on the right”   
      
      
      
     Ramanujan and Strand Puzzle   
      
               this was a very interesting puzzle tackled by the genius   
   Srinivasa Ramanujan.        In the year 1914, P.C. Mahalanobis, a Kings   
   college student in England, got hold of a puzzle from the Strand magazine.   
      
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