Problem 44754. How many days?!?

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Mark Posen on 25 Dec 2021 at 10:01

A great problem for a Christmas morning! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone on Cody

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li haitao on 9 Nov 2018

Great!
How did you come up with the idea?

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