Number Gossip
(Enter a number and I'll tell you everything you wanted to know about it but were afraid to ask.)
Rare Properties of 1794
The n-th cake number is the maximum number of pieces a (cylindrical) cake can be cut into with n (straight-plane) cuts.
Unfortunately, not everybody gets the frosting. If you cut pizza rather than cake, you get lazy caterer's numbers.
Common Properties of 1794
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.
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.