Heracles the mighty was questioning Augeas, seeking to learn the number of his herds, and Augeas replied “About the streams of Alpheius, my friend, are the half of them; the eighth part pasture around the hill of Cronos, the twelfth part far away by the precinct of Taraxippus; the twentieth part feed in holy Elis, and I left the thirtieth part in Arcadia; but here you see the remaining fifty herds.”
Fica a questão, para quem quiser pensar nisto, ou apenas tentar resolver um problema matemático de Héracles, provindo ainda de tempos da Antiguidade…
