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4 December

Today's number is a three digit number which is equal to the sum of the cubes of its digits. One less than today's number also has this property.

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1 December

It is possible to write 325 different numbers using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 at most once each (and using no other digits). How many of these numbers are odd?

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24 December

There are six 3-digit numbers with the property that the sum of their digits is equal to the product of their digits. Today's number is the largest of these numbers.

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22 December

In bases 3 to 9, the number 112 is: \(11011_3\), \(1300_4\), \(422_5\), \(304_6\), \(220_7\), \(160_8\), and \(134_9\). In bases 3, 4, 6, 8 and 9, these representations contain no digit 2.
There are two 3-digit numbers that contain no 2 in their representations in all the bases between 3 and 9 (inclusive). Today's number is the smaller of these two numbers.

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17 December

Eve picks a three digit number then reverses its digits to make a second number. The second number is larger than her original number.
Eve adds her two numbers together; the result is 584. What was Eve's original number?

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1 December

If you write out the numbers from 1 to 1000 (inclusive), how many times will you write the digit 1?

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Not Roman numerals

The letters \(I\), \(V\) and \(X\) each represent a different digit from 1 to 9. If
$$VI\times X=VVV,$$
what are \(I\), \(V\) and \(X\)?

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22 December

In base 2, 1/24 is 0.0000101010101010101010101010...
In base 3, 1/24 is 0.0010101010101010101010101010...
In base 4, 1/24 is 0.0022222222222222222222222222...
In base 5, 1/24 is 0.0101010101010101010101010101...
In base 6, 1/24 is 0.013.
Therefore base 6 is the lowest base in which 1/24 has a finite number of digits.
Today's number is the smallest base in which 1/10890 has a finite number of digits.
Note: 1/24 always represents 1 divided by twenty-four (ie the 24 is written in decimal).

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