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Math Corner brainteaser.
In the Math Corner at the end of my March Diary I stated a theorem about divisibility and challenged readers to prove it. My proof is here.
Dickens, Twain, and that tobacco.
Also in the March Diary I wondered if the reference to Negro-head tobacco in my 2003 Barnes & Noble Classics edition of
Great Expectations, Chapter 40, was a bowdlerization of something slightly different in the 1861 original of that novel.
Several readers stepped up to that one.
Sorry, John; it s Negro-head all right. At least it is in the Sheldon & Co edition, 1862.
Nothing to be sorry about, Sir, I just honestly wanted to know.