Re: extropian almost perfect odd number team captures world record

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Jun 07 2002 - 00:23:02 MDT


spike66 wrote:
>
> Thanks to Python, I have found a new record
> for an odd extremely good number.
>
> 172555747427327895, the factors of which
> are 3, 5, 7, 11, 389, 29959 and 128194559.
> The goodness ratio is -1.2E-16, making this a
> tera-damn-good number, which is to say the
> sum of the factors equals the number to about
> 0.12 parts per quadrillion. spike

Hey, Spike - have you considered searching for an almost perfect number
whose factors are also almost perfect?

(This is a JOKE.)

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Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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