Here’s a fun number game:<\/p>\n
For any U.S. president, collect three numeric digits as follows:<\/p>\n
— One digit is the number of letters in their first name.
\n— One digit is the lowest digit of their birth month.
\n— One digit is the lowest digit of their birth year.<\/p>\n
For example, for Abraham Lincoln, the three digits would be 7, 2 and 9 (for Abraham, February and 1809, respectively).<\/p>\n
Now try to form numbers by arranging those digits in different ways. For Lincoln, you get six numbers:<\/p>\n
279, 297, 729, 297, 927, 972<\/p>\n
You can do this with any U.S. president. For George Washington, the digits would be 6, 2 and 2. So you only get three numbers:<\/p>\n
226, 262, 622<\/p>\n
So some presidents produce six numbers, and others produce three. Yet among the 45 U.S. presidents, only one produces a single number.<\/p>\n
But that number might say a lot about that president. Can you figure out what the number is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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