Number Gossip
(Enter a number and I'll tell you everything you wanted to know about it but were afraid to ask.)
Unique Properties of 404
- 404 is the HTTP status code for "file not found", perhaps the most famous HTTP status code of all
- 405 is the smallest composite number that is the sum of two, three, four, and five consecutive composite numbers (405 = 202 + 203 = 134 + 135 + 136 = 99 + 100 + 102 + 104 = 78 + 80 + 81 + 82 + 84)
- 405 is the smallest number with 10 odd divisors
Common Properties of 404
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 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.
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.