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| 13 Down? 36 Across? (Posted on 2008-12-25) |
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I was doing a crossword puzzle the other day when I noticed that each word in the following (two-word) clues all share one unique common characteristic. What is it?
Acid rain
Bath mat
Get Smart
Halloween pumpkin
Harvest moon
Heart patient
High elevation
Monkeyed around
Pigged out
Planet Earth
Skin lotion
Suspected felon
Western Utah
Zen Buddhist
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Expressed in Base-36, each word yields a Base-10 prime number, as follows:
Acid = 482,773 rain = 1,273,343 Bath = 527,237 mat = 28,901 Get = 21,269 Smart = 48,069,641 Halloween = 48,789,534,108,911 pumpkin = 56,271,688,223 Harvest = 37,656,776,621 moon = 1,058,423 Heart = 29,220,617 patient = 55,073,787,833 High = 817,073 elevation = 41,173,553,727,959 Monkeyed = 1,777,679,398,309 around = 651,170,857 Pigged = 1,542,655,237 out = 32,212 Planet = 1,547,423,237 Earth = 24,017,237 Skin = 1,332,959 lotion = 1,311,477,719 Suspected = 81,404,488,004,053 felon = 25,875,527 Western = 70,551,962,627 Utah = 1,437,641 Zen = 45,887 Buddhist = 928,117,987,949
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