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Owlet puzzle #46

Released Thursday, August 20, 2026 UTC

31536000
the answer for puzzle #46

The five clues

  1. A count of seconds in a common calendar unit.
  2. A number in the tens of millions that appears often in unix timestamps and date math.
  3. 365 × 86400.
  4. Exactly one day short of a leap year in seconds.
  5. 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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