Owlet puzzle #46
Released Thursday, August 20, 2026 UTC
31536000
the answer for puzzle #46
The five clues
- A count of seconds in a common calendar unit.
- A number in the tens of millions that appears often in unix timestamps and date math.
- 365 × 86400.
- Exactly one day short of a leap year in seconds.
- Its prime factorization is 2⁷ · 3³ · 5³ · 73.
Backstory
31,536,000 = 365 · 86400 is the number of seconds in a non-leap year. Its factorization is 2⁷ · 3³ · 5³ · 73, and it has 256 divisors — an unusually round divisor count driven by 73 (which divides 365 = 5 · 73).
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