SOLUTION: A famous mathematician of the 1800's once said: "I was x years old in the year x squared." In what year did the mathematician say this, and what year was he born?

SOLUTION: A famous mathematician of the 1800's once said: "I was x years old in the year x squared." In what year did the mathematician say this, and what year was he born?

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Question 22568: A famous mathematician of the 1800's once said: "I was x years old in the year x squared." In what year did the mathematician say this, and what year was he born?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let "x" be the age of the mathematician.
Then x^2 is between 1700 and 1800
Take the sqrt throughout the inequality to get
[41.23 < x < 42.43]
Since the man's age is an integer he must have
been 42.
Cheers,
Stan H.
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