#206 All square
Set by Colin Beveridge
“What ho!” boomed Aunt Nicola. I could tell she was about to talk cricket at me. “Have you been following the test match between Pythagorea and Lagrangia?”
“Auntie, you know I prefer Navier-Stokes to Ben Stokes.” “Well,” she said, “you might be interested – there’s maths involved! In their first innings, Lagrangia’s total score was a square number.”
“Innings?” I asked. “It’s the word for a team’s turn to bat. They each have two. In their first, the Pythagoreans also got a square number, but they were more than 300 behind!”
“That sounds insurmountable.” “You might think so,” she said. …