Shepherd Gopal had a curious aptitude for mathematics
and he was known around where he lived as the ‘Counting Shepherd’.
A man passing through the meadow one day saw Gopal grazing a
number of sheep and in the course of a short conversation asked him how many of
the grazing sheep were his own. Gopal’s reply absolutely baffled him, which was
as follows:
If you divide my sheep into two different parts the
difference between the two numbers will be the same as the difference between
their squares. Now figure it out for yourself the number of sheep I own.’
Can you say just how many sheep Gopal had?
Answer: Shepherd
Gopal had one sheep only.
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