Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2016
In the Diary for 1850 the following; mathematical query was proposed by the Rev. T. P. Kirkman, of Croft, near Warrington:—
“Fifteen young ladies in a school walk out three abreast for seven days in succession: it is required to arrange them daily, so that no two shall walk twice abreast.”
Two answers were printed in the Diary for 1851; one by the proposer and another by Messrs. Samuel Bills, of Hawton; Thomas Jones, of Chester; Thomas Wainman, of Burley; and W. H. Levy, of Shalborne.
* We reprint this as the work of a gentleman eminent for his actuarial attainments.—ED. A. M.