• @[email protected]
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    79 months ago

    196 is a square number, the square of 14. As the square of a Catalan number, it counts the number of walks of length 8 in the positive quadrant of the integer grid that start and end at the origin, moving diagonally at each step. It is part of a sequence of square numbers beginning 0, 1, 4, 25, 196, … in which each number is the smallest square that differs from the previous number by a triangular number.

    • @force
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      39 months ago

      196 is a square number, the square of 14.

      you can stop there, that’s the average age of the users here