Article 72AWS Can you solve it? Are you ready for twenty twenty-six…seven?

Can you solve it? Are you ready for twenty twenty-six…seven?

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Alex Bellos
from Science | The Guardian on (#72AWS)

The year ahead in numbers

UPDATE: Read the solutions here

As we say goodbye to 2025, let's delight in its numerical charms one final time. The year was unique this century as being a square number.

442 = 1936

452 = 2025

462 = 2116

Five 9s

Six 8s.

Six 7s.

Six 6s.

Four 5s.

Six 4s.

Four 3s.

Four 2s.

a partridge in a pear tree. (Only joking)

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