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3 unusual facts about Henry Dudeney


Henry Dudeney

She married (John) Christopher Fulleylove, son of John Fulleylove and one of an esteemed family of English artists.

She later became a very well known writer who published many novels as well as a number of short stories in Harper's Magazine under the name "Mrs. Henry Dudeney".

John Fulleylove

They also had a son, John Christopher Fulleylove, who married Margery Dudeney, daughter of puzzle designer Henry Dudeney.


Dudeney number

The name derives from Henry Dudeney, who noted the existence of these numbers in one of his puzzles, Root Extraction, where a professor in retirement at Colney Hatch postulates this as a general method for root extraction.


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