What's special about your team number?

[Brandon Martus]

Saw this in my news reader yesterday .. whats special about your team number?

http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html

47 is the largest number of cubes that cannot tile a cube.

[Tom Bishop]

832 is the maximum number of pieces a torus can be cut into with 16 cuts.

How awesome is that!?

[MrForbes]

"1726: Wiki webpart targeting deleted container == bad news"

I don't think I like that....

[tdlrali]

469 is the largest known value of n for which n!-1 is prime.

[+()c|D]

4 is the smallest number of colors sufficient to color all planar maps.

pretty cool...

[Ben Piecuch]

228 is the sum of 10 (yes, TEN!) consecutive Prime Numbers.

7 + 11 + 13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 = 228

For those of you who spend a lot of time calculating in base 7, 228 is the repdigit (repeated digit) 444.

And, I always make sure to have my afternoon snack at GUS Time, 2:28pm.

BEN

[Katie Reynolds]

857 is a value of n for which φ(n) = φ(n-1) + φ(n-2).

... and I have no idea what that means.

[Kevin Sevcik]

57 is apparently 111 in base 7. So maybe some year will run around impersonating Wildstang. Also, true story, one of our departed mentors wanted us to be sponsored by Heinz. Of Heinz 57 sauce fame. He suggested we could change our name to "The Flying Pickles". Most of the rest of the team was unimpressed.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Ben Piecuch

And, I always make sure to have my afternoon snack at GUS Time, 2:28pm.
BEN

Oh man.. lol I always tend to look at my computer clock right at 2:28 most days waiting for those break bells to sound to take mine. Weird.
more 228 stuff Art posted a while back as well: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...0&postcount=13


Anyways, as for 237, it pwns all. lol Among being the coolest number in many of our lives on the team there are SOOOO many pop culture references to the number 237.

From wikipedia:

Two hundred thirty-seven 237 = 3·79
Two hundred thirty-seven - 237 is the hotel room number of the dead woman in The Shining.
Two hundred thirty-seven - 237 is the number of Red's cell in The Shawshank Redemption.
Two hundred thirty-seven - 237 is the amount of money the four kids collected in Stand By Me.
Two hundred thirty-seven - 237 is the decimal value of Ed.
Two hundred thirty-seven - 237 is the name of a song by the band Fear Before The March Of Flames.
Two hundred thirty-seven - AFX 237 V7 is the name of a song by the Aphex Twin.

Along with some other things I have picked up on along the way (most of which reference back to the movie The Shining in some way or another.

The Blue man group's Rock Concert Movement 237 is: Taking the audience on a Jungian journey into the collective unconscious, using the shadow as a metaphor for the primal self that gets repressed by the modern persona and also by using an underground setting and labyrinth office design to represent both the depths of the pysche and the dungeon-like isolation of our increasingly mechanistic society which prevents people from finding satisfying work or meaningful connections with others.

There is a band who just played their last concert on 2/3/07 in NYC Called Room 237. Hard Rock/Metal music.

You can find the number 237 anywhere.
http://podquard.multiply.com/photos/album/4 <-- The Proof

There is an awesome Robot Team from CT with the number 237 as well.
http://www.team237.com/

And one more from an old post of mine:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...77&postcount=6

[FunkyRatDemon]

Ours is all odd...753...(and can be sequentially reduced by 2)
Our Mascot has a cape w/ our # on it

[pheadxdll]

Nothing interesting

1225 is a hexagonal square triangular number.

Our team number can be displayed on a digital clock though.

[Koko Ed]

191 is a number n for which n, n+2, n+6, and n+8 are all prime.

[theun4gven]

79

a permutable prime
the 22nd prime number
a Kynea number
a Pillai prime
the smallest number that can't be represented as a sum of fewer than 19 fourth powers
a strictly non-palindromic number
can be Partitioned 40 times with each term no larger than 2
can be Partitioned 560 times with each term no larger than 3
79 is a Centered 13-gonal Number
79 is a Centered 26-gonal Number
is the maximal number of regions into which 12 lines divide a plane
(as a Messier object) a globular cluster in the Milky Way
(as a year, CE) Pompeii was buried by the eruption of Vesuvius
(as an element) GOLD!!!

[Ben Piecuch]

Alan, why do I get the feeling that you calculated all those permutations of 45 yourself?

BEN

[Cody Carey]

306 is the number of 5-digit triangular numbers.