Monday 28 December 2009

Number Gossip


Did you know that the number 12 is the smallest abundant number, the only number that is equal to the sum of 3 raised to its digits, the smallest number that is equal to the sum of its digits plus the cubes of its digits, and is the weight of the modular discriminant as a modular form?

Number Gossip by Tanya Khovanova will tell you everything you wanted to know about numbers but were afraid to ask.

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