Road Sign Math

Frank Kaszar may be the first person to be suffering from Road Sign Math addiction. For this post, his submission is being included verbatim.

Dear Administrator,
I am terribly pleased to finally be submitting this sign. I noticed it in February and was fascinated by the numbers involved. There were a lot of them, but they [...]

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Frank Kaszar found this wonderful mathematically significant roadsign while out for a long drive. He brought his camera just in case he found something, and find something he did!

Mr. Kaszar doesn’t even need to tell us the solution to this sign.
19 + 59 = 69
This sign is on Route 41 southbound in Wisconsin heading [...]

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Frank Kaszar finds this mathematically significant roadsign that pays tribute to the late, great football hero Vince Lombardi. If you were to get off there you would quickly arrive at the famous Lambeau Field where the Green Bay Packers play.

Mr. Kaszar doesn’t get discouraged by the addition of those big numbers with the simple [...]

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Frank Kaszar brings this wonderful, and expansive, sign from De Pere, Wisconsin. The sign assemblage is located right next to Lazy Gecko’s, a college hangout for Saint Norbert College. This sign stretches the lengths of rule #2, and is completely valid.

Mr. Kaszar sets a Road Sign Math with the very first sign to ever [...]

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Dennis Daily brings only the second sign from the cheese state of Wisconsin. This sign is caught “at speed” while cruising down the interstate.

The math here is very nice, and fairly easy to catch. Just need to notice the 9 and the 1!
95 + 1 + 9 = 105
This sign is on eastbound I-94 [...]

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The hunt for mathematically significant roadsigns is a bug that bites some people worse than others. Particularly problematic is when that bug bites us and we have no particular need for a road trip! When the time comes to go on the hunt during a drive the excitement, and potential feeling of failure, can be [...]

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