Number Gossip
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Unique Properties of 501
- There are 501 ways of partitioning the digits from 0 to 9 into two sets, each of which contains at least two digits
- 501 is the number of ways of partitioning a set of five elements into any number of ordered sequences
Common Properties of 501
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 odd if it is not divisible by 2.
Numbers that are not odd are even. Compare with another pair -- evil and odious numbers.
The number n is odious if it has an odd number of 1's in its binary expansion.
Guess what evil numbers are.
A number is said to be square-free if its prime decomposition contains no repeated factors.