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24 December

The digital product of a number is computed by multiplying together all of its digits. For example, the digital product of 1522 is 20.
How many 12-digit numbers are there whose digital product is 20?

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17 December

The digital product of a number is computed by multiplying together all of its digits. For example, the digital product of 6273 is 252.
Today's number is the smallest number whose digital product is 252.

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3 December

If you write out the numbers from 1 to 1000 (inclusive), how many times will you write the digit 0?

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24 December

There are six ways to put two tokens in a 3 by 3 grid so that the diagonal from the top left to the bottom right is a line of symmetry:
Today's number is the number of ways of placing two tokens in a 29 by 29 grid so that the diagonal from the top left to the bottom right is a line of symmetry.

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23 December

198 is the smallest number that is equal to 11 times the sum of its digits.
Today's number is the smallest number that is equal to 48 times the sum of its digits.

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14 December

The numbers 33, 404 and 311 contain duplicate digits. The numbers 120, 15 and 312 do not.
How many numbers between 10 and 999 (inclusive) contain no duplicate digits?

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10 December

Today's number is the smallest multiple of 24 whose digits add up to 24.

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8 December

The residents of Octingham have 8 fingers. Instead of counting in base ten, they count in base eight: the digits of their numbers represent ones, eights, sixty-fours, two-hundred-and-fifty-sixes, etc instead of ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.
For example, a residents of Octingham would say 12, 22 and 52 instead of our usual numbers 10, 18 and 42.
Today's number is what a resident of Octingham would call 11 squared (where the 11 is also written using the Octingham number system).

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