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Re: Happy New Year 2025

#192

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6 is kind of cheating. It's a restatement of 45^2. 3^2 is the sum of the first three odd numbers. 4^2 is the sum of the first four odd numbers. 5^2 is the sum of the first five odd numbers. Edit: sorry, don't mean to be a pill.

I don't consider it cheating, I bet most of these rules have an internal relation.

They do indeed have an internal relation - they all add up to 2025.

Obviously all the formula will be equivalent to each other. They are, by construction, all restatements of each other.

Re: Happy New Year 2025

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45^2 = 2025 Happy perfect square year, everyone. The previous one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116.

Totally nothing bad happened in the decade following the last perfect square year in 1936. :')

Unless something equivalent happened in 1849, 1764, 1691... I think we're OK :)

Re: Happy New Year 2025

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don’t start the year by mutating state, geeeeeez :)

It's not mutating state, it's defining a transition function from one immutable state to another!

[year, setYear] = useState(2024)

Get off my lawn means no libraries, just web api.

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