{"id":2024,"date":"2021-02-13T08:12:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T13:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2024-04-08T09:44:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:44:39","slug":"passion-kiss-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/13\/passion-kiss-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion Kiss Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2022\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Passion-Kiss-Fig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"281\" \/>This is a somewhat challenging math cryptogram in a slightly different guise from the Canadian Math Society\u2019s magazine, <em>Crux Mathematicorum<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you can\u2019t make arithmetic out of passion. Passion has no square root.\u201d (Steve Shagan, <em>City of Angels, <\/em>G.P. Putnam\u2019s Sons, New York, 1975, p. 16.)<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, show that in the decimal system<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2021 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Passion-Kiss-Eq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"25\" \/><\/p>\n<p>has a unique solution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Passion-Kiss-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Passion-Kiss-Problem-200921.pdf\">Passion Kiss Problem<\/a> for solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a somewhat challenging math cryptogram in a slightly different guise from the Canadian Math Society\u2019s magazine, Crux Mathematicorum. \u201cBut you can\u2019t make arithmetic out of passion. Passion has no square root.\u201d (Steve Shagan, City of Angels, G.P. Putnam\u2019s Sons, New York, 1975, p. 16.) On the contrary, show that in the decimal system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[212,215],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-crux-mathematicorum","tag-math-cryptogram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3703,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions\/3703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}