• Bronco1676@lemmy.ml
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      196 is a square number, the square of 14. As the square of a Catalan number, it counts the number of walks of length 8 in the positive quadrant of the integer grid that start and end at the origin, moving diagonally at each step. It is part of a sequence of square numbers beginning 0, 1, 4, 25, 196, … in which each number is the smallest square that differs from the previous number by a triangular number.

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        8 months ago

        196 is a square number, the square of 14.

        you can stop there, that’s the average age of the users here

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      8 months ago

      The original sub was r/195, as it was started by roommates whose room number was 195. Then later for whatever reason appeared the spinoff r/196 and got more popular than the original.

      Like I’m 80% sure that this is how it happened and that it’s not semi-made-up by myself because I misremember the story…