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"Cupid's Arithmetic": Solution

Posted in Puzzles by Greg Ross on March 27th, 2008

Solution to Cupid's Arithmetic, from Wednesday:

All the young mathematician had to do was to reverse the paper and hold it up to the light, or hold it in front of a mirror, when he would immediately see that his betrothed's curious jumble of figures will read:

cupid's arithmetic solution