What's Special About This Number?


	What's Special About This Number?

morgainelefaye

3-21-2007 4:49 PM

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morgainelefaye says:

For more distinctive facts about numbers, see the website.

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<FONT size="+3" color="#006600">1</FONT> is the <A href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MultiplicativeIdentity.html">multiplicative identity</A>.
<FONT size="+3" color="darkblue">2</FONT> is the only even <A href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeNumber.html">prime</A>.
<FONT size="+3" color="red">3</FONT> is the number of spatial dimensions we live in.
<FONT size="+3" color="red">4</FONT> is the smallest number of colors sufficient to color all planar maps.
<FONT size="+3" color="red">5</FONT> is the number of <A href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PlatonicSolid.html">Platonic solids</A>.
<FONT size="+3" color="purple">6</FONT> is the smallest <A href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PerfectNumber.html">perfect number</A>.
<FONT size="+3" color="red">7</FONT> is the smallest number of faces of a regular polygon that is not <A href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ConstructiblePolygon.html">constructible</A> by straightedge and compass.
<FONT size="+3" color="gold">8</FONT> is the largest <A href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CubicNumber.html">cube</A> in the <A href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FibonacciNumber.html">Fibonacci sequence</A>.
<FONT size="+3" color="#ff6699">9</FONT> is the maximum number of <A href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CubicNumber.html">cubes</A> that are needed to sum to any positive integer.
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