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Pet project: Number Gossip
- unignorant 15y agoFun. I learned a few interesting facts ;-) For instance, I did not know that an evil number has an even number of 1's in its binary expansion. http://www.numbergossip.com/list#evil_numbers http://www.numbergossip.com/list#evil_numbers However, it seems that 666 is not an evil number. http://www.numbergossip.com/666 http://www.numbergossip.com/666
- corin_ 15y ago616, on the other hand, is an evil number. I guess we now know which one is actually the number of the beast. ('The latest volume includes details of fragments showing third- and fourth-century versions of the Book of Revelations. Intriguingly, the number assigned to "the Beast" of Revelations isn't the usual 666, but 616.') http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/0425_050425_papyrus_2.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/0425_050425_...
- revorad 15y agoThis is delicious! Rare Properties of 93 Cake The n-th cake number is the maximum number of pieces a (cylindrical) cake can be cut into with n (straight-plane) cuts. Unfortunately, not everybody gets the frosting. If you cut pizza rather than cake, you get lazy caterer's numbers. ..., 26, 42,64,93,130,176,232,...*
- DanielRibeiro 15y ago3435 deserved more than just: http://www.numbergossip.com/3534 http://www.numbergossip.com/3534 From this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2477798 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2477798
- snprbob86 15y agoNeat, but you really should provide some exploration entry points. http://www.wolframalpha.com/ http://www.wolframalpha.com/ does a pretty good job of this w/ the rotating suggestions and the "Examples >>" link.