Remote desert town's bizarre welcome sign leaves mathematicians scratching their heads

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Grab your calculators and head for New Cuyama, California — a spunky little desert hamlet proudly displaying a sign that's either a mathematical cry for help or a ruse to scare away city folk who want to buy up the houses and Airbnb them to tourists interested in looking at Carrizo Plain National Monument's salt lake:
Population: 562Feet above sea level: 2150Established: 1951TOTAL: 4663
New Cuyama is living proof that if you build it in the middle of nowhere, exactly 562 people will come. — Read the rest
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