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A property of weird numbers is that if n is weird, and p is a prime greater than the sum of divisors σ(n), then pn is also weird. [4] This leads to the definition of primitive weird numbers: weird numbers that are not a multiple of other weird numbers (sequence A002975 in the OEIS). Among the 1765 weird numbers less than one million, there are ...
In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varies dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at ...
Numbers very close to, but below one are often expressed in "nines" (N – not to be confused with the unit newton), that is in the number of nines following the decimal separator in writing the number in question. For example, "three nines" or "3N" indicates 0.999 or 99.9%, "four nines five" or "4N5" is the expression for the number 0.99995 or ...
Revised 11/10 Do you ever wonder whose job it is to do some of the less desirable things in life? If you think about it, there are odd jobs doing almost anything, no matter how exciting ...
An infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters will (almost surely) produce all possible written texts. Interesting number paradox Either all natural numbers are interesting or else none of them are.
Scientists have determined that the number of stars in the Milky Way ranges from 100 billion to upwards of 400 billion, but there is an estimated amount of 3 trillion trees on Earth. That’s a ...
Odd Hours is the fourth novel in the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz. It was released on May 20, 2008. [1] Plot summary. After leaving the monastery in the previous ...
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