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• Day 1

  Base 2: Binary Lots of Mods Integer Equations The Number 42
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  @genuineopossum Same!

• Day 2

  Power Tower Someone's Favorite Factoring Trick π in Base 8
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  In the video, Prof. Loh wrote "Simon's favorite factoring trick". Wonder why it became "someone's".

• Day 3

  Find the Largest Factor Trailing Zeroes Mod 80 Bonus: Hexadecimal
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• Day 4

  The Last Two Digits Positive Integers Only Base 2 Decimals Bonus: Sieve of Eratosthenes
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  The problem at the end of explanation #2 seems to overlook that no possible values of a are integers.

  If you calculate each value of a, they come out to be 67/6, 35/6, 25/6, and 17/6. Their sum is 24, but none of them are integers. So there are no possible integer values that satisfy that equation.

  The solution uses a trick to calculate the sum of all possible values without actually finding the values of a. So it overlooked the fact that there are no integer values of a.