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

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: 562
Feet above sea level: 2150
Established: 1951
TOTAL: 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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