odditudes-and-weirdities

Happy Deficient Numbers Day! Deficient numbers (aka defective numbers) are the somewhat disdainful name for the natural numbers that are the companions for the more prestigiously named perfect numbers and abundant numbers . They are numbers where the sum of their divisors is less than twice that number. The start of the deficient numbers is below. It's known that there are an infinite number of both even and odd deficient numbers. Though most odd numbers are deficient, there are exceptions; 945 is the smallest odd abundant number, and thus is the first odd number that's not deficient. Here is the classification the beginning of the natural numbers into deficient, abundant, and perfect numbers. (Some are also noted as semiperfect or almost perfect numbers .) We celebrate the deficient numbers today because the highest 2 consecutive deficient numbers that can form a date are 11 and 13: 11/13 or November 13.

Happy Prime Numbers Day! Prime numbers are quite possibly the favorite set of numbers in mathematics. They consist of natural numbers greater than 1 that are not a product of 2 or more smaller natural numbers. The table below shows the prime numbers less than 51. Interest in prime numbers goes back to ancient times. It's long been proven that there are an infinite number of prime numbers, for example. It's long been controversial whether the number 1 should be included in the primes. Though my initial instincts would be to include it, there are reasons to exclude it . If you want to pick a fight with a mathematician, refer to prime numbers in the past tense . We celebrate prime numbers today because the date can be represented as 11/13, the largest consecutive prime numbers that represent a valid date.