Monday, February 15, 2010

353

353 is a prime number.

353 has a representation as a sum of two squares: 353 = 82 + 172.

353 is the hypotenuse of a primitive Pythagorean triple: 3532 = 2252 + 2722.

353 is the smallest multidigit palindromic prime whose digits are all prime numbers.

666 is the sum of two consecutive palindromic primes: 313 + 353 = 666.

353 is the smallest prime for which its fourth power can be written as the sum of four integers to the fourth power: 3534 = 30 4 + 120 4 + 272 4 + 315 4.

353 Ruperto-Carola is a small asteroid discovered by Max Wolf in 1893 in Heidelberg.

Friday, February 12, 2010

570

570 = 2 x 3 x 5 x 19.

570 is the product of the only four prime Roman numeral palindromes: 570 = II x III x V x XIX.

570 is a triangular matchstick number, 3n(n + 1)/2 for n = 19.

570 is the perimeter of a Pythagorean triple: 570 = 95 + 228 + 247 and 2472 = 952 + 2282.

Muhammad, founder of the Islamic religion, was born in the year 570 in the city of Mecca.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

985

985 = 5 x 197.

985 has two representations as a sum of two squares: 985 = 122 + 292 = 162 + 272.

985 is the hypotenuse of two primitive Pythagorean triples: 9852 = 4732 + 8642 = 6962 + 6972. It is the fourth Pythagorean triple where two sides are consecutive integers.

985 is the ninth Pell number.

985 is the telephone area code for southeastern Louisiana.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

839

839 is a prime number.

(839 - 8)8 + (839 - 3)3 + (839 - 9)9 is a prime.

839 is a number that cannot be written as a sum of three squares.

839 has a base 5 representation (11324) that begins with its base 9 representation (1132).

839 is 31013 in base 4.

Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor, was born in the year 839.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

284

284 = 22 x 71.

284 is a number that cannot be written as a sum of three squares.

284 = 28 + 28.

284 and 220 form a pair of amicable numbers, the smallest amicable pair. Two numbers n and m are called an amicable pair if the sum of all positive divisors of n is equal to the sum of all positive divisors of m and both are equal to n + m.


The Greek mathematician Diophantus died in the year 284.

Monday, February 8, 2010

792

792 = 23 x 32 x 11.

792 is 1100011000 in base 2 (binary) and 2211 in base 7.

792 is the number of integer partitions of 21.

792 is a number that can be expressed as the difference of the squares of primes in exactly four distinct ways.

792 is the number of inches in a chain, a unit used in surveying.1 mile = 8 furlongs = 80 chains = 5280 feet = 8000 links = 63,360 inches.

Source: Numeropedia

Friday, February 5, 2010

925

925 = 52 x 37.

925 has three representations as a sum of two squares: 925 = 52 + 302 = 142 + 272 = 212 + 222.

925 is the hypotenuse of two primitive Pythagorean triples: 9252 = 432 + 9242 = 5332 + 7562.

925 is 1021021 in base 3 and 4141 in base 6.



Asteroid 925 Alphonsina was discovered in 1920.

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