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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The age of Diophantus, a brilliant Greek mathematician of about 250 A.D., may be calculated from an epitaph which reads as follows: Diophantus passed one sixth of his life in childhood, one twelfth in youth, and one seventh more as a bachelor; five years after his marriage was born a son who died four years before his father at half his father's final age.\r
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