A Problem Squared

105 = Next Prime Dates and Ancient Gag Rates


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📆 When is the next Prime Number Day?


🤣 What is the oldest joke?


🪨 And we get to the rock bottom of Any Other Business


You can find Matt’s Divisibility Rules video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pLz8wEQYkA


You can read more about the world’s oldest joke here:

https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2022/08/05/sumerian-joke-one


And you can get your Philogelols right here:

https://archive.org/details/philogelos-the-laugh-addict-the-worlds-oldest-joke-book/page/n21/mode/2up


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