Owlet puzzle #66
Released Wednesday, September 9, 2026 UTC
10000
the answer for puzzle #66
The five clues
- A five-digit multiple of ten thousand.
- A perfect square.
- Its square root is one hundred.
- A perfect fourth power.
- In Ancient Greek, myriad — the word for this quantity; roughly 27.4 years in days.
Backstory
10,000 = 10⁴ = 2⁴ · 5⁴. In Ancient Greek, μυριάς (myriás) meant precisely this quantity — the number ten thousand. Only later did 'myriad' come to mean 'a great many.' The Chinese equivalent 萬 (wàn) still names it as a distinct base unit.
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