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= February 8 =

Mathematics
How to solve this number 208 359 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.114.182.17 (talk) 10:06, 8 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Posing this in the form of the problem "Solve $$x=208\,359$$ for $$x$$", we find that the solution is given by $$x=208\,359.$$ The number is composite, with the factorization $$208\,359=3^3\cdot 7717.$$ --Lambiam 11:22, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
 * If the question is how to reduce the ratio 208:359 to lowest terms, it is its own answer, as the two numbers have no common factors (359 is a prime number). —Tamfang (talk) 05:04, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The wiki software plus HTML rendering made it invisible that the question was written as
 * How to solve this number
 * 208
 * 359
 * which may matter in guessing its intended sense. --CiaPan (talk) 07:19, 10 February 2023 (UTC) (Pinging replying contributors: . --CiaPan (talk) 18:42, 10 February 2023 (UTC))
 * In that case, the question could be a number of equations:
 * $$208 + 359 = 567$$
 * $$208 - 359 = -151$$
 * $$208 \times 359 = 74672$$
 * which are obtained using traditional methods of addition, subtraction, and multiplication. -insert valid name here- (talk) 17:53, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
 * 359 is claimed to be the funniest three-digit number. 208 is both practical and happy, and is presumably 359's straight man. Unfortunately, this doesn't tell us what the punch line is, if any. -- Verbarson talkedits 17:23, 12 February 2023 (UTC)