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Wow! Impressiv!
Some mathematics (as long as Stitchawl is sleeping)
A miller has nine sacks of flour that each has a number at it and that are standing at the wall in this order
7-2 8-1 9 6-3 4-5
The miller says: "Mark you, that there be single sacks on the outside, pairs next unto them, and three together in the middle thereof. It does so happen that if we do multiply the pair, 28, by the single one, 7, the answer is 196, which is the number shown by the sacks in the middle. Yet it is not true that the other pair, 34, when so multiplied by its neighbour, 5, will also make 196. Wherefore I do beg you, to place anew the nine sacks with as little trouble as possible that each pair when thus multiplied by its single neighbour shall make the number in the middle."
Can you help the miller?
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