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Looks like there has been a fair amount of vandalism in the past couple of weeks that is not getting reverted. I am not a regular contributor here but, to those who are, you might want to think about protecting the page.
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The answer is determined from two methods: 1. Finding the common multiple of 12, 6, and 7 (which is 84). 2. Taking 14 (the age up to which would be considered a boy; one-sixth of his life) multiplied by 6, which equals
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The documentary sources cited in this article refer to Diophantus as an ancient Greek Mathemetician. Alledging he was of Babylonian birth or not Greek is not supported.
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The first method doesn't seem to make sense. It doesn't include, for instance, the information that he died four years before his son, which affects the answer.
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I've removed the following sentence (added by an IP without any hint of a citation) from the section "Biography":
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The second method relies on knowledge that 14 is an important age in Hellenistic cultures, which isn't necessary.
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The recent addition comparing Diophantus and Khwarizmi could potentially be valuable but
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The reference correctly shows how this problem is solved.
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Diophantus' lifetime deduced from the price of wine?
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