There is a field.

arithmetic/birds.in.trees New, unsolved

New entry, edited from material collected for the archive and not yet in a released version.

Problem

There is a field.  In this field there are a number of trees, more than
one.  In each tree, there are an equal number of birds, more than one.
If you knew the number of birds then you'd know the number of trees.
There are between 200 and 300 birds in the field.  How many birds are
there?

Show solution

No solution was found in the collected postings.

[ Editor: posted by Khaled Mardam-bey <xhlec@westminster.ac.uk> in
March 1994 as "an old puzzle". ]