Excerpt from Mathematical Questions and Solutions, Vol. 12
The problem has been discussed by Salmon, Burnside, and Hirst (see Reprint, First Series, Vol. W., p. 19, and Salmon's Cowies, 5th Ed pp. 389, 390.
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