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How to solve this number 208 359 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.114.182.17 (talk) 10:06, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Posing this in the form of the problem "Solve for ", we find that the solution is given by The number is composite, with the factorization  --Lambiam 11:22, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
If the question is how to reduce the ratio 208:359 to lowest terms, it is its own answer, as the two numbers have no common factors (359 is a prime number). —Tamfang (talk) 05:04, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The wiki software plus HTML rendering made it invisible that the question was written as
How to solve this number
208
359
which may matter in guessing its intended sense. --CiaPan (talk) 07:19, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
(Pinging replying contributors: @Lambiam and Tamfang:. --CiaPan (talk) 18:42, 10 February 2023 (UTC))[reply]
In that case, the question could be a number of equations:
which are obtained using traditional methods of addition, subtraction, and multiplication. -insert valid name here- (talk) 17:53, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
359 is claimed to be the funniest three-digit number. 208 is both practical and happy, and is presumably 359's straight man. Unfortunately, this doesn't tell us what the punch line is, if any. -- Verbarson  talkedits 17:23, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]