Puzzle Question (For the Week of September 7 - September 14)


Draw a 3-by-3 grid, like a tiny crossword puzzle.  Place a single digit
in each of the nine squares thus formed, so as to create three
horizontal 3-digit numbers and three vertical 3-digit numbers.  No
"leading zeros’ allowed.  Of the six 3-digit numbers formed thereby:

  -- one should be a perfect square;
  -- one should be a perfect cube;
  -- one should be a Fibonacci number;
  -- the other three should all be prime numbers.

The same (3-digit) number for instance, could be both a perfect square
and a Fibonacci number.  In such a case, it should count as only one or
the other.
            


Answer: There are 1488 ways in which this can be done. Here are just a couple of them:


            121           377
            125           787
            377           343