A FIVE-FIGURE SQUARE.
There is a number consisting of five figures, none of which are repeated, that the following peculiar features: The first, two. figures of it, as well as the last two, are both square numbers, and indeed so is the central number. Thus as the whole number stands it contains 'four squares read-, ing the figures in the order written. Excluding the cipher there is only one such number,-, and ;though. there is no simple formula for finding.it the reader will see at once that the central figure must bo one, four, or nine. .'A simple process of elimination together with a little patience will enable the reader to discover what tho whole number is. '
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 20
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117A FIVE-FIGURE SQUARE. Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 20
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