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The 17-animal inheritance puzzle is a mathematical puzzle involving unequal but fair allocation of indivisible goods, usually stated in terms of inheritance of a number of large animals (17 camels, 17 horses, 17 elephants, etc.) which must be divided in some stated proportion among a number of beneficiaries.
Despite often being framed as a puzzle, it is more an anecdote about a curious calculation than a problem with a clear mathematical solution.[1] Beyond recreational mathematics and mathematics education, the story has been repeated as a parable with varied metaphorical meanings.
Although an ancient origin for the puzzle has often been claimed, it has not been documented. Instead, a version of the puzzle can be traced back to the works of Mulla Muhammad Mahdi Naraqi, an 18th-century Iranian philosopher. It entered the western recreational mathematics literature in the late 19th century. Several mathematicians have formulated different generalizations of the puzzle to numbers other than 17.
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