Thursday, January 19, 2012

Numbers


Looking over my training log this morning,  I noticed that on this 18th day of January, I have trained a total of 18 hours so far - 15 running and 3 biking for a total of 134.73 miles. (Loving the new training log!) What does this mean? Nothing, I think.

Swimming? 0! Maybe tonight I will log a few feet. Main goal: do not drown and most important: do not embarrass me or anyone else. ha ha

150 - I saw it yesterday.

There are 347 days left in this year, unless the Mayans are right, then you have a few less. Good time to make those purchases where you don't have to pay anything for the first year, if you believe the Mayan thing.

This is my 877th blog post, and there have been 99,387 page views since it started.

Found this:

What is the most interesting integer, and why? Obviously the answer is highly subjective, but I'm still interested in people's opinions, preferably those of professional mathematicians. To make my question a bit more interesting, I'll add the qualification, "not counting 0, 1, and -1," since these numbers are obviously interesting, but in a very well-known (uninteresting?) ways. So perhaps my question really is: what integer has the most neat, surprising and memorable property or properties, and why?
Here's an answer:

142857. You can multiply it by any integer from 1 to 6 and the product is the number 142857 with it's digits rearranged:

142857 *1 = 142857
142857 *2 = 285714
142857 *3 = 428571
142857 *4 = 571428
142857 *5 = 714285
142857 *6 = 857142

2 comments:

Allen said...

But it's the 19th! Oh well, I will train for right at an hour today, so that will make 19/19. ha ha.

Jason Petty said...

so I assume you didn't drown... By far my weakest of the three triatholon challenges. I wonder how many Ironman athletes have been eaten by sharks in the swimming leg?