{"id":38700,"date":"2025-12-22T21:12:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=38700"},"modified":"2025-12-22T21:12:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:12:35","slug":"did-you-solve-it-are-you-ready-for-twenty-twenty-sixseven-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=38700","title":{"rendered":"Did you solve it? Are you ready for twenty twenty-six\u2026seven? | Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Earlier today I set you the following set of numerical challenges to celebrate the arrival of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Auld lang signs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Here is an expression equal to 26 that uses six 1s:<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">(1+1)\u00d7(1+1+11)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Find expressions equal to 26 using:<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">You are only allowed the four basic operations, +, \u2013, x, \u00f7, brackets, exponentiation and concatenation. (Exponentiation is when you make a digit the exponent, such as 11. Concatenation is when you join digits together, such as taking a two 1s and making 11.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Solutions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">9+9+9\u2212(9\/9)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">8+8+8+((8+8)\/8)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">7+7+((77+7)\/7)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">6\u00d76+(6\u221266)\/6<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">5\u00d75+(5\/5)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">4+(44\u00d74\/(4+4))<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">33 \u2212 3\/3<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">22 + 2 + 2<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Good tidings to all! I\u2019ll be back in 7+7+((77+7)\/7)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><em>Thanks to Inder Taneja, author of the website numbers-magic.com. He has many more facts about the coming year in his paper 26 and 2026 in Numbers and Magic Squares<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><em>I\u2019ve been setting a puzzle here on alternate Mondays since 2015. I\u2019m always on the look-out for great puzzles. If you would like to suggest one, email me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today I set you the following set of numerical challenges to celebrate the arrival of 2026. Auld lang signs Here is an expression equal to 26 that uses six 1s: (1+1)\u00d7(1+1+11) Find expressions equal to 26 using: You are only allowed the four basic operations, +, \u2013, x, \u00f7, brackets, exponentiation and concatenation. (Exponentiation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[2032,4737,1649,12410,21113],"class_list":{"0":"post-38700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-mathematics","9":"tag-ready","10":"tag-solve","11":"tag-twenty","12":"tag-twentysixseven"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}