I have a mathematician friend who lived in a house with street address 2401 for over ten years before he realized it was (and in fact still is) 7^4, causing him significant mental distress On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Marc LeBrun <mlb@well.com> wrote:
="Dan Asimov" <dasimov@earthlink.net> I once jumped at the chance to choose a telephone number ending in 1729,
Similarly, I purposely selected mailbox number 239 for my business address, then walked across the parking lot to the supermarket, used the ATM, and discovered, when examining the receipt, that it was Safeway number 1729.
To paraphrase Nietzsche, "When you play with the numbers, the numbers play with you."
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