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I wonder what's special about the number 125? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number)
by pjscott 14y ago
I wonder what's special about the number 125?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number)
- statictype 14y agoWasn't 1729 also the name of the team Waterhouse was part of in Cryptonomicon?
- packetslave 14y agoThat was Detachment 2702 (which was originally Detachment 2701, but Lawrence worried that Rudy would notice the name since it's the product of two primes)
- bwhite 14y agoNot just that, but two palindromic primes!
- rfurmani 14y ago125 is a power of 5 whose digits rearrange to a power of 2, namely 512, and I imagine its the only power that works like this. And if you complain about arbitrarily using base 10, that's just 2 times 5
- gilgoomesh 14y ago> whose digits rearrange to I think rearranging digits until the result has interesting properties is a dubious claim to fame. It evokes the pseudomathematics of numerology and is only one step away from nonsense like "The Bible Code". Especially since "5 cubed" is respectable enough on its own.