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What's Special About This Number?

11 pointsby markupabout 16 years ago

7 comments

Eliezerabout 16 years ago
2 is the only even prime?<p>Objection! This amounts to "2 is the only prime not divisible by 2"! How about 2 is the highest solution for N in any equation X^N + Y^N = Z^N?<p>3 is the number of spatial dimensions we live in?<p>Objection! This is a mere contingent empirical fact! This is a fact about our universe, not the number 3! You might as well say that your car has three seats in the back. How about "3 is the first number whose factorial does not equal itself"?
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russellabout 16 years ago
Dont go there if you have the slightest interest in numbers. Your day will evaporate before your eyes. :-)
edw519about 16 years ago
"9951 is the number of ways to color the vertices of a triangle with 31 colors, up to rotation."<p>Thank you! I was wondering about that just last night over beer. Now I can sleep easy :-)<p>Seriously the only thing missing:<p>1 is the number of web site authors with way too much time on their hands.
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tynabout 16 years ago
"88 is the only number known whose square has no isolated digits"<p>Anyone that can explain this?
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gojomoabout 16 years ago
I feel sorry for 356, the smallest number about which there is nothing "special". But perhaps that is itself special! Repeat.
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gaoshanabout 16 years ago
"69 has the property that n2 and n3 together contain each digit once."<p>Indeed.
arsabout 16 years ago
The 897x's are cheating.