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An Essay on Probabilities and their Application to Life Contingencies and Insurance Offices, Augustus de Morgan (1838)
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on being asked his age de Morgan used to say
"I shall be X years old in the year X^2"
1849 is the only possible year having a square root (43). He was born therefore in 1806.
Basil Field
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26/1/1904