Another interesting prime: 43,252,003,274,489,855,999 The number of unsolved positions of Rubik's cube. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
My favorite prime is 1+i.
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:01 PM, <rcs@xmission.com> wrote:
Let's not forget 314159! --Rich
----- Quoting Thane Plambeck <tplambeck@gmail.com>:
149459, a prime number, the period of the octal game 0.16
It magically appeared in the green phosphor of a DEC VT100 in the Stanford CS department basement in the fall of 1986
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Victor Miller <victorsmiller@gmail.com> wrote:
My favorite prime is 144169. Besides the fact that it looks like 12^2 concatenated with 13^2, it's also the discriminant of the quadratic field which contains the eigenvalues of the Hecke operators on modular forms of weight 24.
Victor
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
((( My favorite number is 24 hands down, because of its amazing properties like showing up in Dedekind eta, 1^2 + ... + 24^2 = 70^2 being the only such relation, the 24-dimensional Leech lattice, and 24 being the largest number N such that all smaller numbers K with GCD(K,N) = 1 satisfy K^2 == 1 (mod N). At least some of these are interconnected. )))
But how about prime numbers? After the first few, how do you distinguish, say, 101, 103, 107, 109 ? Are there standard measures of some sort that distinguish among prime numbers?
--Dan
Sometimes the brain has a mind of its own.
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