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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $125$
- Accommodating Squares
- Can you find two three-digit square numbers (no noughts) that, when put together, will form a six-digit square number?
- Thus, $324$ and $900$ (the squares of $18$ and $30$) make $324 \, 900$, the square of $570$, only there it happens there are two noughts.
- There is only one answer.
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Various Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: $125$. -- Accommodating Squares
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Miscellaneous Puzzles: $198$. Accommodating Squares