#math trivia #113 solution

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Burt Kaliski Jr. (@modulomathy)
4/22/12 4:26 PM
#math trivia for #April22: #113 is 16 weeks and 1 day, both squares. How many days of the year does this happen?

The pattern happens twice during the week preceded by a square number of full weeks. There are eight square numbers between 0 and 52 inclusive, so there are 16 such days.

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