Friday, December 20, 2024

60 Is A Very Round Number

 I noticed this connection as I was waking up this morning:

62/2 = 31

63/3 = 21

64/4 = 16

65/5 = 13

66/6 = 11

Is there any other sequence of 5 consecutive numbers, such that 2-6 will go into them evenly?  The reason it works is that 60 can be divided evenly by 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.  Then you take the remainder and apportion the extra 1 to 30, 20, 15, 12 and 10.

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