Dishonest Butler/Historical Note

Historical Note on the Problem of the Dishonest Butler

According to David Wells, in his Curious and Interesting Puzzles of $1992$, the Problem of the Dishonest Butler appears in one of the works of Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, but he does not say where.


Sources

  • 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Exchanging the Knights: $104$
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