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Unique Properties of 5

  • 5 is the smallest number of queens needed to attack every square on a standard chess board
  • 5 is the only prime which is the difference of two squares of primes
  • 5 is the only prime that is a member of 2 pairs of twin primes
  • 5 is the only number which is equal to the sum of all primes less than itself
  • 5 is the number of Platonic solids
  • If the Goldbach's conjecture is true, then 5 is the only odd untouchable number
  • 5 is the smallest degree at which polynomial roots are no longer findable in closed form
  • 5 is the smallest odd prime which is not a Gaussian prime (submitted by Sam Steingold)
  • 5 is the smallest number of vertices needed to create a non-planar graph
  • The only polygon that has the same number of sides and diagonals is a pentagon
  • 5 is the smallest number that appear in two twin Pythagorean triplets (3, 4, 5) and (5, 12, 13)
  • John Conway proved that in the Conway's Soldiers game, no finite sequence of moves allows a soldier to advance to the fifth row above the horizontal line.
  • The volume of a unit ball reaches its maximum in dimension 5.

Rare Properties of 5

Automorphic (Curious)
Catalan
Fibonacci
Hungry
Narcissistic
Palindromic prime
Pentagonal

Common Properties of 5

Deficient
Evil
Odd
Palindrome
Prime
Square-free
Twin
Untouchable