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Happy 4nd of December!
Throughout the month, to accompany the release of our book on the Mathematics of Christmas, Hannah Fry & I are tweeting out Christmathsy bits and pieces, one a day, advent calendar style. Assuming we don’t run out of ideas, that is…
Today, a mini-puzzle:
DON’T FORGET, you still have until midnight tonight (Sunday) to enter our competition…
Well obviously because it’s [CENSORED TO AVOID SPOILING THE PUZZLE] except that Americans won’t get that but then again who cares!
However it might be because:
it is a little over 2 thousand years since the first Christmas Day
The great O antiphons herald the ending of Advent
Santa has 8 reindeer on his sleigh
Christmas is a recurring event and the repeated 3 echoes his favourite phrase ho, ho, ho.
Love the alternative theory. Thanks for putting in the extra thought!