Number Gossip
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Unique Properties of 22
- 22 is the smallest Hoax Number
- 22 is the smallest multidigit number such that the sum of its digits equals the product of its digits
- 22 is the only fixed point of the Look and Say operation
- 22 is the smallest number that can be partitioned into sets integers such that the sum of their reciprocals is 1 in more than one way
- 22 is famous as the numerator of of 22/7, commonly used rational approximation for pi with small denominator
- When cutting a circle with just six line segments, the maximum number of pieces that can be so created is 22. In addition to that, cutting a circle with five circles, the maximum number of pieces is also 22
- 22 is a catch, as in Catch-22
- 22 is the only palindrome with an even number of digits that can be expressed as a sum of two palindromic primes
- 22 is the smallest number that is the sum of terms of an arithmetic progression containing four positive different integers in two ways
- 22 is the smallest integer n, except for the trivial 1, such that n! has n digits
- There are 22 pentahexes
Common Properties of 22
A positive integer greater than 1 that is not prime is called composite.
Composite numbers are opposite to prime numbers.
The number n is deficient if the sum of all its positive divisors except itself is less than n.
Compare with perfect and abundant numbers.
A number is even if it is divisible by 2.
Numbers that are not even are odd. Compare with another pair -- evil and odious numbers.
The n-th lazy caterer number is the maximum number of pieces a (circular) pizza can be cut into with n (straight-line) cuts.
Unlike the situation with cake, everybody gets the toppings.
The number n is odious if it has an odd number of 1's in its binary expansion.
Guess what evil numbers are.
A palindrome is a number that reads the same forward or backward.
A composite number is called a Smith number if the sum of its digits equals the sum of all the digits appearing in its prime divisors (counting multiplicity).
In 1984, when Albert Wilansky called his brother-in-law, named Smith, he noticed that the phone number possesses the property described here. Are they called joke numbers, because they were named after an innocent unsuspecting brother-in-law :-) ?
A number is said to be square-free if its prime decomposition contains no repeated factors.