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buddy

12th March 2025, 21:43
Lively democratic primary renounces Republican investing scam (7)

(DPRIMARY - R)*
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geting

12th March 2025, 21:49
Perhaps you've read about Mayan iconographic designs - principally found on this type of structure (7)
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amej

12th March 2025, 22:06
285 and 385 partially empty memory I’d add (7)
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chrise

12th March 2025, 22:12
amej @23
I see the wordplay, but what is the significance of the numbers?
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darla

12th March 2025, 22:27
Pyramidal numbers I believe. In other words, the number of blocks to make a (square) pyramid of n levels.
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chrise

12th March 2025, 22:30
Thanks darla, but I don't see how you could balance 8 blocks on 2 or 3!
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chrise

12th March 2025, 22:31
I think I would need a diagram!
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jono

12th March 2025, 22:37
Here you go…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidal_number
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chrise

12th March 2025, 22:47
Thanks jono - doesn't help a lot!
In a related topic, do you know the (possibly apocryphal) origin of the expression "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"?
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darla

12th March 2025, 22:51
They are also the sum of the first n square numbers.
So 1 + 4 + 9 + --- + 100 = 385.
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