Thursday, April 23, 2009

Elementary Numbers for Breakfast

  • 1967 is not a prime.
  • 19 is a prime, so is 67.
  • 1967 is sort of symmetrical, in binary (11110101111).
  • 1967 in binary is 19 digits long.
  • 19 is (still) a prime.
  • 1+1+1+1+0+1+0+1+1+1+1=9.
  • 9 is not prime (but it is the numerological value of both my name and my birthdate).
  • 1967 has only two proper factors: 7 and 281.
  • 7 and 281 are primes.
  • 2+8+1=11.
  • 11 is a prime.
  • 1+1=2.
  • 2 is a prime.
  • 1+9+6+7=23.
  • 23 is a prime.
  • 2+3=5.
  • 5 is a prime.
  • I was born in 1967, and I like primes.
  • The above statement is not universally true, but it is true of me.