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Unique Properties of 483

483 is the smallest number n such that the n-th octagonal number is the sum of three consecutive octagonal numbers
483 is the last 3-digit string to appear in the decimal expansion of pi

Common Properties of 483

Composite

A positive integer greater than 1 that is not prime is called composite.

Composite numbers are opposite to prime numbers.

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480,
481,
482,
483,
484,
485,
486,
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Deficient

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.

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479,
481,
482,
483,
484,
485,
487,
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Evil

The number n is evil if it has an even number of 1's in its binary expansion.

Guess what odious numbers are.

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476,
479,
480,
483,
485,
486,
489,
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Lucky

To build the lucky number sequence, start with natural numbers. Delete every second number, leaving 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, ... . The second number remaining is 3, so delete every third number, leaving 1, 3, 7, 9, 13, 15, 19, 21, ... . The next number remaining is 7, so delete every 7th number, leaving 1, 3, 7, 9, 13, 15, 21, ... . The next number remaining is 9, so delete every ninth number, etc.

Those numbers were lucky they weren't crossed out.

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463,
475,
477,
483,
487,
489,
495,
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Odd

A number is odd if it is not divisible by 2.

Numbers that are not odd are even. Compare with another pair -- evil and odious numbers.

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477,
479,
481,
483,
485,
487,
489,
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Smith (Joke)

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 :-) ?

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391,
438,
454,
483,
517,
526,
535,
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Square-free

A number is said to be square-free if its prime decomposition contains no repeated factors.

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479,
481,
482,
483,
485,
487,
489,
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Ulam

The next Ulam number is uniquely the sum of two earlier distinct Ulam numbers.

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441,
451,
456,
483,
485,
497,
502,
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Tanya Khovanova

Number Gossip

Unique Properties of 483

Common Properties of 483