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This page is being used to collect information about the history of A Calculus Problem in Paperfolding. Please contact me if you know any of this information is incorrect or if you have any other information that should be added. Thank you.

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1926

As far as I know this puzzle first appears as ''A Crease Problem'' in 'Modern Puzzles' by Henry Ernest Dudeney', which was published by C. Arthur Pearson in London in 1926.

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The puzzle also appears:

1967

In '536 Puzzles and Curious Problems' by Henry Ernest Dudeney, which was published by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York in 1967. It is a combination of almost all the material previously published in Dudeney's 'Modern Puzzles' and 'Puzzles and Curious Problems', edited into a single volume by Martin Gardner.

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1959

In an article titled 'About origami, the Japanese art of folding objects out of paper' by Martin Gardner, which was published in the July 1959 issue of 'Scientific American'.

The solutions were given in the August 1959 'Mathematical Games' column.

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