Number Gossip
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Unique Properties of 888
- 888 is the only number whose cube (700227072) consists of 3 digits each occurring 3 times
- 888 is the smallest multiple of 24 whose digit sum is 24
Common Properties of 888
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.
One can take the sum of the squares of the digits of a number. Those numbers are happy for which iterating this operation eventually leads to 1.
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.