2020 is an interesting year in numbers. I went looking for combinations that will be interesting - like Feb 2nd 2020 will be 02 02 2020 and you could have time in there to be 02:02 02 02 2020 or 20:20 02 02 2020 with the twenty-four hour clock. These are the weekend repeating dates.
Sunday, February 2nd (02/02/2020)
Saturday, April 4th (04/04/2020)
Saturday, June 6th (06/06/2020)
Saturday, August 8th (08/08/2020)
Saturday, October 10th (10/10/2020)
Saturday, December 12th (12/12/2020)
The weekend repeating dates are listed because one seems to retrieve best wedding dates in 2020.
The Guardian came to the rescue with this headline:
Did you solve it? 2020 in numbers.
The article is here. I've extracted two of the questions. To get the answer for 3.1) you will want to visit the link as a few are presented.
2) Imagine 2020 is not a year but a rugby score, as I’ve scrawled below. This score spells out a word. Can you work out which one?
Solution Wipe a tear from your eye. The word is ONION. Rotate the score by 90 degrees anticlockwise and you’ll see.
The next question:
3.1) Fill in the blanks in the following ‘countdown’ equation so it makes arithmetical sense:
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 = 2020
You are allowed to use any of the basic mathematical operations, +, –, x, ÷, and as many brackets as you like. An answer might look something like (10 – 9 + 8) x (7 – 6 – 5)/(4 + 3 + 2 + 1) = 2020, but not this one since the equation is incorrect.
To see a lot more in numbers for 2020 by mathematician Inder J. Taneja, go HERE. The introduction says this short work brings representations of 2020 in different situations. These representations are of crazy-type, running numbers, single digit, single letter... Then there is a revised version. It is HERE. It contains the addition of this:
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