Monday, November 30, 2009
57
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
194
Source: What's Special About This Number?
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
271
Monday, November 23, 2009
929
Friday, November 20, 2009
799
Thursday, November 19, 2009
357
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
93
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
1019
1019 is a prime number.
1019 is the number of twin prime pairs between 10,000 and 100,000.
1019 and 1021 form a twin prime pair.
1019 is a Sophie Germain prime because 2 x 1019 + 1 = 2039, and 2039 is also a prime.
The Broadway musical Damn Yankees had an initial run of 1019 performances.
Source: Prime Curios!
Monday, November 16, 2009
814
814 = 2 x 11 x 37.
29 circles divide the plane into at most 814 regions.
814 is a value of n such that n(n + 5) is a palindrome: 814 x 819 = 666666.
814 is a member of the sequence generated by starting with 1, then repeatedly reversing the digits and adding 13: 1, 14, 54, 98, . . . , 108, 814, 431, . . .
814 is the numerical designation of a naval air squadron of the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm nicknamed the "Flying Tigers."
Friday, November 13, 2009
989
989 = 23 x 43.
989 is the smallest number so that it and its reverse are divisible by 43.
989 is 33131 in base 4 and 12424 in base 5.
989 is one of the integers generated by the following sieve: Keep first number, drop every second, keep first, drop every third, keep first, drop every fourth, and so on: 0, 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 17, 21, 29, 33, . . . , 989, . . .
Halley's Comet was visible from Earth in the year 989.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
479
479 is a prime number. Moreover, the differences between any two of its digits are also prime.
479 is a number that cannot be written as a sum of three squares.
479 is the largest known prime number that cannot be represented as the sum of fewer than nineteen fourth powers.
Inserting 0 between adjacent digits of 479 produces a prime: 40709.
479 is the telephone area code serving northwestern Arkansas.
Source: Prime Curios!
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
506
506 = 2 x 11 x 23.
506 is a pronic number because it is the product of two consecutive integers: 22 x 23 = 506.
506 is the sum of the first eleven squares: 12 + 22 + . . . + 102 + 112 = 506 (which makes it a square pyramidal number).
506 is a hendecagonal number.
The telephone area code 506 covers the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
Source: Number Gossip
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
115
115 = 23 x (2 + 3).
115 has a unique representation as a sum of three squares: 32 + 52 + 92 = 115.
115 is the smallest three-digit integer, abc, such that (abc)/(a*b*c) is prime: 115/5 = 23.
Source: Prime Curios!
Monday, November 9, 2009
611
611 is a brilliant number. It is a semiprime (product of two primes) whose prime factors have the same number of decimal digits. These numbers are generally used for cryptographic purposes and for testing the performance of prime factoring programs.
611 is a number n such that n times n + 5 gives the concatenation of a number m and itself: 611 x 616 = 376376.
611 is a number with no zeroes that becomes a prime when any one digit is deleted: 61 and 11 are both primes.
For customers of some telephone companies in Canada and in the United States, 611 is the abbreviated dialing telephone number used to report a problem with telephone service, or with a payphone.