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Pet project: Number Gossip (numbergossip.com)
11 points by gsivil on April 24, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



Fun. I learned a few interesting facts ;-)

For instance, I did not know that an evil number has an even number of 1's in its binary expansion.

http://www.numbergossip.com/list#evil_numbers

However, it seems that 666 is not an evil number.

http://www.numbergossip.com/666


616, on the other hand, is an evil number. I guess we now know which one is actually the number of the beast.

('The latest volume includes details of fragments showing third- and fourth-century versions of the Book of Revelations. Intriguingly, the number assigned to "the Beast" of Revelations isn't the usual 666, but 616.') http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/0425_050425_...


Neat, but you really should provide some exploration entry points.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/ does a pretty good job of this w/ the rotating suggestions and the "Examples >>" link.


This is delicious!

Rare Properties of 93

Cake

The n-th cake number is the maximum number of pieces a (cylindrical) cake can be cut into with n (straight-plane) cuts.

Unfortunately, not everybody gets the frosting. If you cut pizza rather than cake, you get lazy caterer's numbers.

    ..., 26, 42,64,93,130,176,232,...*





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