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The big point here is that the actual proof continues for a few more paragraphs, and is not merely what the OP ripped out of context, as just one nice-looking math-paragraph.

-Mostly-unrelated question-answer cycle from K's early contributions to MAA.

A challenge problem, proposed by Kaczynski just a few pages away from the above. The answers and solutions would be published about a year later, reproducing Kaczynski's challenge problem itself (and citing him).

Kaczynski's youth together with the wide variety of credited solvers would seem to suggest the simplicity of the problem.