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GEORGE BIDDER
9
of the quotients, when squared, will be 48,841 ? Answer,
312.
A question resolved by George Bidder, at the Old Thatched
House, Red Lion Street, in forty seconds, February 9,
1819-
Suppose the ball at the top of St. Paul’s Cathedral is six
feet in diameter, what did the gilding of it cost at 3|cZ. per
square inch ?
Answer, 237Z. 10$. ItZ.
A question proposed by Mr. Straton, schoolmaster, Rip-
ley, Surrey, and answered by George Bidder, in 32 minutes,
Oct. 17, 1818:—
A. and B. made the following bet for 1000 guineas, to be
decided on Ripley Common, in Whitsun week. The pro-
poser has ten choice cricketers in full exercise, who, on this
occasion, are to be distinguished by the ten first letters in the
alphabet. These are to run and gather up, and carry singly
1000 eggs, laid in a rightline, just two yards asunder, putting
them gently in a basket, placed just a fathom behind the first.
They are to work, one at a time, in the following order:—A
is to fetch up the first 10 eggs, B the second 10, C the third
10, and so on, to K, whose turn it shall be to fetch up the
hundredth egg; after which, A sets out again for the next
10, B the second 10, and so alternately, till K shall have
carried up the thousandth egg, at 100 eggs the man. The
men are to have 300Z. for their three days’ work, if they do
it; and it is to be distributed in proportion to the ground
each man shall in his course of ground have gone over.
I require, first, how many miles each person shall have
gone over ; secondly, what part of the 300/. will come to
his share; thirdly, whether, if the men had been posted at
proper places, they had not better run from London to
York twice, and back, in the time, taking the distance at
180 miles ?
9
of the quotients, when squared, will be 48,841 ? Answer,
312.
A question resolved by George Bidder, at the Old Thatched
House, Red Lion Street, in forty seconds, February 9,
1819-
Suppose the ball at the top of St. Paul’s Cathedral is six
feet in diameter, what did the gilding of it cost at 3|cZ. per
square inch ?
Answer, 237Z. 10$. ItZ.
A question proposed by Mr. Straton, schoolmaster, Rip-
ley, Surrey, and answered by George Bidder, in 32 minutes,
Oct. 17, 1818:—
A. and B. made the following bet for 1000 guineas, to be
decided on Ripley Common, in Whitsun week. The pro-
poser has ten choice cricketers in full exercise, who, on this
occasion, are to be distinguished by the ten first letters in the
alphabet. These are to run and gather up, and carry singly
1000 eggs, laid in a rightline, just two yards asunder, putting
them gently in a basket, placed just a fathom behind the first.
They are to work, one at a time, in the following order:—A
is to fetch up the first 10 eggs, B the second 10, C the third
10, and so on, to K, whose turn it shall be to fetch up the
hundredth egg; after which, A sets out again for the next
10, B the second 10, and so alternately, till K shall have
carried up the thousandth egg, at 100 eggs the man. The
men are to have 300Z. for their three days’ work, if they do
it; and it is to be distributed in proportion to the ground
each man shall in his course of ground have gone over.
I require, first, how many miles each person shall have
gone over ; secondly, what part of the 300/. will come to
his share; thirdly, whether, if the men had been posted at
proper places, they had not better run from London to
York twice, and back, in the time, taking the distance at
180 miles ?