Math factoid of the day: 56

Saturday 16 June 2018 — This is seven years old. Be careful.

56 is the sum of six consecutive primes (3 + 5 + 7 + 11 + 13 + 17), and is a pronic number, being the product of two consecutive numbers (7 × 8).

Comments

[gravatar]
Dennis Doughty 3:52 AM on 17 Jun 2018
Let's get some things straight: A prionic number is a number with mad cow disease. A priapic number is 1. A pronic number is 7x8.

Add a comment:

Ignore this:
Leave this empty:
Name is required. Either email or web are required. Email won't be displayed and I won't spam you. Your web site won't be indexed by search engines.
Don't put anything here:
Leave this empty:
Comment text is Markdown.