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Score a century with an improper fraction

Jim Howson
Tuesday 12 May 2009 04:46

Back in the eighteen-hundreds, a great deal of work was done by amateur mathematicians on the problem of expressing a century using all nine digits from one to nine, once each.

These early maths pioneers also discovered a suitable improper fraction where the left hand integer is just a single digit. Here it is, with the single digit identified to give you a start.

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The task then, with this week's problem, is to place the other eight digits correctly to make the fraction-section sum to 97.

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