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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsFun math geek question:
What is unique about the number 26?
And no, not the mystic/psychic 26 stuff.
tblue37
(65,218 posts)no fair Googling.
tblue37
(65,218 posts)know the answer, and my patience is limited, so I had to know it right away.
Disaffected
(4,545 posts)i.e. if you don't already know the answer or can't look it up, the odds of coming up with the answer independently are pretty low for virtually anyone, even a mathematician, I would guess.
unblock
(52,116 posts)26 is uniquely the largest integer less than 27
It's also uniquely the smallest integral multiple of 13 greater than 13.
But that's probably not what you had in mind....
it's something a little neater than that.
Brother Buzz
(36,375 posts)I ain't got nothing.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)26 is the only number between a square number and a cube number.
But that's probably not the expected answer.
Disaffected
(4,545 posts)that's it!
Now, for extra points, prove it.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)but I can't prove either one.
Disaffected
(4,545 posts)there is that about it alright.
Cirque du So-What
(25,908 posts)but I am a math geek and want to give others a chance. Suffice to say, it's unique among integers.
Ptah
(33,019 posts)Black Diamond Riders motorcycle club of Toronto, Canada at 529 Jarvis Street?
Ptah
(33,019 posts)PJMcK
(21,995 posts)...my age when I married wife no. 1?
Big mistake on my part.
Major Nikon
(36,818 posts)NNadir
(33,468 posts)...number to have a sum of digits that is a perfect cube: the second even number to factor into a two digit prime number; it is the first number to come between a perfect square and a perfect cube...
Are any (or all) of these "right?"
Disaffected
(4,545 posts)26 is the only number to come between a square and a cube.
It's the only that I find particularly intriguing.
NNadir
(33,468 posts)There probably is such a proof, but if so, I'm unaware of it.
Disaffected
(4,545 posts)I can't verify it but it sounds reasonable.