puzzle implies that Diophantus' age can be expressed as

which gives a value of 84 years. However, the accuracy of the information cannot be confirmed.

Arithmetica

Arithmetica is the major work of Diophantus and the most prominent work on premodern algebra in Greek mathematics. It is a collection of 290 algebraic problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations (those with a unique solution) and

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