Owlet puzzle #119
Released Sunday, November 1, 2026 UTC
314
the answer for puzzle #119
The five clues
- A three-digit even number under 400, digit sum eight.
- The first three significant digits of a famous transcendental.
- Equal to 2 × 157, where 157 is prime.
- π truncated to three digits.
- In binary it is 100111010 — nine bits long.
Backstory
314 ≈ 100π, so the first three digits of pi form the semiprime 2 · 157. Pi Day falls on March 14; a curiosity of π's decimal expansion is that the first zero doesn't appear until the 32nd digit after the point.
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