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Unique Properties of 66
- 66 is the lowest non-strobogrammatic number that shares a strobogrammatic prime factor with its invertible partner, i.e., 66 and 99 are both divisible by 11
- In Star Wars, Order 66 is a prepared order to the clone troopers to kill the Jedi commanding them
- 66 is the smallest abundant palindrome
- 66 is the number of triangular polyominoes with 8 cells
- 66 is the smallest palindrome which is a product of three distinct primes (submitted by Massimo Kofler)
- 66 is the smallest triangular number which is a product of three primes
Common Properties of 66
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.
A number is said to be square-free if its prime decomposition contains no repeated factors.
If you start with n points on a line, then draw n-1 points above and between, then n-2 above and between them, and so on, you will get a triangle of points. The number of points in this triangle is a triangle number.
Compare to square, pentagonal and tetrahedral numbers.