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Unique Properties of 252
- 252 is the smallest number which is the product of two distinct numbers that are reverses of each other: 252 = 12*21
- If you flip a coin 10 times in a row, there are exactly 252 ways in which it can turn out that you get exactly 5 heads and 5 tails
- 252 is the smallest palindrome with 5 prime factors (counted with multiplicity)
- 252 is the smallest average of an amicable pair
Common Properties of 252
The number n is abundant if the sum of all its positive divisors except itself is more than n.
They are abundant above perfection, not to mention deficiency. See perfect and deficient numbers.
A positive integer greater than 1 that is not prime is called composite.
Composite numbers are opposite to prime 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 number n is evil if it has an even number of 1's in its binary expansion.
Guess what odious numbers are.
A palindrome is a number that reads the same forward or backward.
The number n is practical if all numbers strictly less than n are sums of distinct divisors of n.
Undulating numbers are numbers of the form abababab... in base 10.
This property is significant starting from 3-digit numbers, so we will not consider numbers below 100.