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8 December

Arrange the digits 1-9 in a 3×3 square so: each digit the first row is the number of letters in the (English) name of the previous digit, each digit in the second row is one less than the previous digit, each digit in the third row is a multiple of the previous digit; the second column is an 3-digit even number, and the third column contains one even digit. The number in the first column is today's number.
each digit is the number of letters in the previous digit
each digit is one less than previous
each digit is multiple of previous
today's numbereven1 even digit
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