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On 1/20/2024 5:12 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
> The rest of the story:
> 
> Needless to say, after more than 13.5 years of climbing, Physfit's age 
> had taken him to a stage in life that he could not even think of going 
> back down and going home. So he dropped his last National Cup tea-bag 
> into the hot water and began thinking to himself, "Now when I look down 
> I can only see the lower parts of this mountain; no sign of an Earth 
> underneath it; so I will spend the rest of my life here at the summit, 
> inside my sleeping bag, watching all these stars above me ..."


Thus the story continues...:

Soon after such thoughts, Physfit got comfortable inside his sleeping 
bag and began watching the amazing stars. He gradually fell into sleep, 
dreaming that ... dreaming what? Things got confusing, then settled and 
he found himself not at the summit of the magic mountain but inside a 
strange structure of some sort, with high ceiling and a large narrow 
slot across it. A facility of some sort. Before he began slowly walking 
around, he noticed his shoes and dress looked weird, like belonging to 
centuries back in Iran. Then he noticed the large device inside, which 
pointed towards stars from that opening in the high ceiling. Rapidly, 
his mind opened up, and he remembered where he was and who he was!

He was no Physfit.

 From the magic mountain, he had stepped straight into the 13th century 
Maragheh Observatory in northwest Iran, run by Nasiredding Tusi, right 
inside the rein of Holaku Khan, the grandson of Chengiz!...

Now he knew who he was; in fact, who he'd always been. The sole pupil of 
the master Tusi, Ghotbeddin Shirazi, who also worked in the observatory. 
Not even a faint single memory of the magic mountain had left in him.

On that early morning hour, close to sunrise, Nasireddin Tusi and 
Ghotbeddin Shirazi had called it a day an hour earlier, and had wrapped 
up their works and were ready to leave.

Ghotbeddin turned to Tusi who was still at his large, long desk and with 
a smile and a confident tone told him:

   "Tonight I found two unique and special integers! They're in a 
marvelous and unique way related to the date of Holaku's most beautiful 
daughter's birthday :)"

Tusi who knew the date of that birthday from Ghotbeddin's previous 
episodes of similar wishful and foolish mushy talk, without even lifting 
his head answered,

   "In what way?"

Ghotbeddin said,

   "Each integer is made of three non-repeating digits and when you 
divide the integers by the products of their own digits they give 
exactly the month and the day of birthday of Holaku's beautiful 
daughter, respectively! :)"

Tusi stayed silent for a few moments, then stood up and got ready to 
leave. By the time the two made it to the gate of the observatory 
compound to leave the premises and go home, Tusi turned to Ghotbeddin 
and in a mildly teasing tone said,

   "Sorry to disappoint you Shirazi, but there's nothing unique about 
those three-digit integers of yours :)"

Ghotbeddin who knew Tusi enough to get a little nervous by such comments 
quickly asked,

   "What do you mean?"

Tusi right away gave him two other three-digit numbers that had exactly 
the same properties! One would lead to the month (like Farvardin = 1, 
Ordibehesht = 2, etc) and the other would lead to the day of the month 
corresponding to the daughter's birthday by the same rules Ghotbeddin 
had described a few minutes back. So the little personal party that 
Ghotbeddin / Physfit had imagined for himself that night was, so soon, 
over :)

What was the date of Holaku's daughter's birthday?

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Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-01-27 17:22 -0600
  Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-01-28 12:31 +0000
    Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-01-28 16:44 -0600
      Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-01-29 08:28 +0000
        Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> - 2024-01-29 11:53 +0100
          Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-02-02 23:56 -0600
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        Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-01-31 18:18 -0600
      Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-02-02 21:49 +0000
  Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-02-03 04:00 -0600
    Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-02-03 16:19 +0000
      Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-02-03 16:17 -0600
      Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-02-04 14:24 +0000
    Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-02-04 19:53 -0600
    Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-02-05 01:51 -0600
      Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-02-05 19:39 -0600
        Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-02-06 21:00 +0000
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