Saturday, December 3, 2016

What's in a number?

What is in a number - any number.  I happened to see the number 752.  What can I learn about this number?  

Properties of the Number 752

  • Because 752 is divisible by 2 ...
    • 752 is an even number
    • 752 has parity 0
    • 752 is not an odd number
  • Because 752 can be factored as 2 x 376 ...
    • 752 is a composite number
    • 752 is not a prime number

The most fascinating is the website www2.stetson.edu's What's Special About This Number?  I scrolled to the bottom and found out that 8208 is a narcissistic number.  I guess I am fascinated by the abundance of complicated words in a sentence about something seemingly simple like a number: 

"752 is the number of conjugacy classes in the automorphism group of the 11 dimensional hypercube."

The internet has resources from so many sources, so I also found entries that go in a very different direction from the above:

Angel Number 752: 752 is your number of reference this month. You have seen it very many times. You have come across this repeating number so much that you have lost count. The divine angels are talking to you. From sunsigns.org

The Number 752 is the holy name of Jesus of Nazareth - from Historical Archive of the Bible Wheel Site - biblewheel.com

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