13532385396179 - Numberphile

A number which could earn its "finder" a $1000 prize. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ John Conway videos: http://bit.ly/ConwayNumberphile Read more at: http://gladhoboexpre...

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Gonna write it down. So here we go. I'm not even gonna try and say it cause it's a bit too big. Two three eight five seven nine. Like your salary? Yeah, something like that, eh? So I'll tell you something funny about this number, and I will say why this is interesting. This number happens to be 13 times 53 squared times three eight five three times nine six one seven nine. Now the funny thing about that is what I've written down there is the prime factorization of this number. So all these are the prime numbers, these - 13 is prime, 53 is prime, 3,853 is prime, and 96,179 is prime. So this is the prime factorization of this number, but look at how you could have got this number. There's your 13, right? There's your 53. The...
13532385396179 - Numberphile
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