Blog Post #121 - 12/12/2020

 Time flies and we are already in December in an year which has been unprecedented in nature and we continue to look for positives before we step into 2021

12/12/2020 is a bit unique many ways and today's blog post is around some of the patterns that we see around this date which also coincides with the Computer Science Education Week (Dec 7th to 13th)

1. 12 + 12 + 20 + 20 is a perfect square (64) which is a core number in computer/digital world and it is a sheer coincidence with Computer Science Education Week 

2.   12 * 12 gives 144 and 20 * 20 is 400. Difference of the two is again a perfect square (256) and square of 256 is 65536 which again is a most familiar number in Computer world

3. The best is always reserved for the last

Sum of the digits - 1+2+1+2+2+0+2+0 = 10

Sum of the squares of the digits - 1 + 4 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 0 + 4 + 0 = 18

Sum of the cubes of the digits - 1 + 8 + 1 + 8 + 8 + 0 + 8 + 0 = 34

Sum of the fourth power of the digits - 1 + 16 + 1 + 16 + 16 + 0 + 16 + 0 = 66

Notice the sequence - 10, 18, 34, 66

The difference between successive numbers is 2 ^ 3, 2 ^ 4, 2 ^ 5 and you could guess what would be the next number in the series without doing any further complex maths!

Maths is fun and 12/12/2020 is just another reason why we can feel more optimistic as we move towards 2021