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New Year's math art, with /1337 elements: https://x.com/skominers/status/1874636278177960101?t=ED7O3bQxHNMyp1QOXGeDhw&s=19

I hope you've had an excellent 2025 = 45² thus far!

I've created two editions to commemorate the start of what – for many of us – will be the only perfect square year of our lives.

They are very different – in both style and substance.

👇👀 https://t.co/FtdHpcc8Vd

The first of today's editions commemorates the fact that the date lines up with the first four Catalan Numbers (1, 1, 2, and 5). It will be free to claim via Manifold indefinitely, as part of the "Numerology" series I started on (Fibonacci) New Year's Day 2023. https://t.co/qmkUExvWaJ

Scott Kominers

@a16zcrypto • Harvard/HBS • 🧩 • QED

https://x.com/skominers/status/1874636281688572131?t=4g-kHvaPJ61F7zFFlj0jMg&s=19

The second of today's editions is a fully onchain abstract, set on a 2025-pixel grid – a size which is only possible because 2025 = 45×45 is a perfect square.

"45 squared: New Year" was done by hand using 45(+2) colors and a quasi-generative framework I plan to continue… https://t.co/yObOeEBDFs

https://x.com/skominers/status/1874636284292980836?t=NjAxpWkiSQaJtojWiRhW6A&s=19