Tuesday, July 20, 2010

#300 and a New Look

Besides being the post at which I applied a series of visual changes to this blog site, the number three-hundred has some interesting facts attached to it.

Besides being King Leonidas' entourage at Thermopylae, "300" is:

On the high end, a perfect score in bowling;
On the low end, the lowest credit score possible; and
The maximum legal velocity, in terms of feet per second, of a shot paintball.

In the world of mathematics "300" is"

A triangular number;
A sum of twin primes (149 + 151)
The sum of ten consecutive primes (13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 47); and
A Harshad number (it is divisible by the sum of it's digits).

Now, are those facts really "fun"?

1 comment:

  1. Well first off, the ocean look is really neat and calming... second I loved the 300 trivia... So much to learn....

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