{"id":30274,"date":"2023-07-04T21:13:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T01:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=30274"},"modified":"2023-07-04T21:34:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T01:34:45","slug":"a-mini-mathematical-recreation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2023\/07\/a-mini-mathematical-recreation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mini-Mathematical Recreation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/cbf2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-30348\" style=\"margin-top: -5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/cbf2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Journal_of_Recreational_Mathematics\">Journal of Recreational Mathematics<\/a>, which I&#8217;ve mentioned a number of times here, ceased publication in 2014.\u00a0 Sadly, nothing has risen to replace it.\u00a0 As a number enthusiast myself, I was lucky to have Martin Gardner introduce me to the Journal and then to have had a few articles published therein.\u00a0 I miss the puzzles that were posed in the Journal along with the people who posed them.<\/p>\r\n<p>To fill the void, I present a puzzle of my own devise.\u00a0 Question One: What letter belongs in the center square?\u00a0 Question Two:\u00a0 What is X and why?\u00a0 (If you can answer Question One, Question Two is easy.)<\/p>\r\n<p>Apologies to those who were hoping for something like Wordle.<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Journal of Recreational Mathematics, which I&#8217;ve mentioned a number of times here, ceased publication in 2014.\u00a0 Sadly, nothing has risen to replace it.\u00a0 As a number enthusiast myself, I was lucky to have Martin Gardner introduce me to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2023\/07\/a-mini-mathematical-recreation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30274"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30354,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30274\/revisions\/30354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}