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From: Brian Gross <briang@dingo.sr.hp.com>
Perhaps I broke the riddle posed by Yvan Chaxel...
The question is to find when ( which year ) that particular "summer" took place.
1_ "Oh when ? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was
that summer."
X = Y - Z
2_ "I was born in 1910, in Paris".
Z = X - 1910
3_ " But the mimosa [ the mimosa of that particular summer ] grove ...
until at last 24 years later, I broke her [Annabel's] spell by
incarnating her in another [Lolita]."
W = X + 24
4_ "Now, at 12, she [Lolita] was a regular pest."
W = Y + 12
X - Y + Z = 0
X - Z = 1910
X - W = - 24
Y - W = - 12
-OR IN MATRIX NOTATION-
1 -1 1 0 X 0
1 0 -1 0 Y = 1910
1 0 0 -1 Z - 24
0 1 0 -1 W - 12
-OR-
[ A ] [ B ] = [C]
It can be shown (use your favorite method) that
det[A] = 1 and by inspection [C] <> 0 thus it is
proven the system has a unique solution.
The system can be solved (use your favorite method)
to give:
X = 1922 (That "particular" summer)
Y = 1934 (Lo's birtdate)
Z = 12 (Hum's age that summer, Hmm!)
W = 1946 (When Hum first met Lo.)
What fun! Am I correct? Thanks Yvan!
Brian Gross
Perhaps I broke the riddle posed by Yvan Chaxel...
The question is to find when ( which year ) that particular "summer" took place.
1_ "Oh when ? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was
that summer."
X = Y - Z
2_ "I was born in 1910, in Paris".
Z = X - 1910
3_ " But the mimosa [ the mimosa of that particular summer ] grove ...
until at last 24 years later, I broke her [Annabel's] spell by
incarnating her in another [Lolita]."
W = X + 24
4_ "Now, at 12, she [Lolita] was a regular pest."
W = Y + 12
X - Y + Z = 0
X - Z = 1910
X - W = - 24
Y - W = - 12
-OR IN MATRIX NOTATION-
1 -1 1 0 X 0
1 0 -1 0 Y = 1910
1 0 0 -1 Z - 24
0 1 0 -1 W - 12
-OR-
[ A ] [ B ] = [C]
It can be shown (use your favorite method) that
det[A] = 1 and by inspection [C] <> 0 thus it is
proven the system has a unique solution.
The system can be solved (use your favorite method)
to give:
X = 1922 (That "particular" summer)
Y = 1934 (Lo's birtdate)
Z = 12 (Hum's age that summer, Hmm!)
W = 1946 (When Hum first met Lo.)
What fun! Am I correct? Thanks Yvan!
Brian Gross