Owlet puzzle #45
Released Wednesday, August 19, 2026 UTC
86400
the answer for puzzle #45
The five clues
- A count of seconds in a common everyday time span.
- A five-digit count arising in everyday timekeeping.
- The number of minutes in a day multiplied by sixty.
- How many Unix ticks fit between two midnights.
- Its prime factorization is 2⁷ · 3³ · 5².
Backstory
86,400 = 60 · 60 · 24 = 2⁷ · 3³ · 5² is the number of seconds in a day. Its 96 divisors make it a highly composite number, and every Unix-time difference between calendar days is an integer multiple of it (leap seconds aside).
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