Tuesday, June 15, 2010

246

246 = 2 x 3 x 41. It is a sphenic number: the product of three distinct primes.

246 is the lowest number (and the only one with three factors) whose unique prime factorization contains exactly the first four digits.

246 is 1441 in base 5 and 303 in base 9.


246 is the sum of four positive fifth powers: 246 = 35 + 15 + 15 + 15.

Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), President of France, once complained: "How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese."

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