Number Recreations

Shyam Sunder Gupta
Chief Bridge Engineer
North Western Railway
Jaipur, India
Telephone: (0141) 2220535(O), 2810808(R)
email: guptass@rediffmail.com
http://www.shyamsundergupta.com/

Happy New Year 2008

What is New? (Update 30th December, 2007)

CYF NO. 36 solutions by Luke Pebody , Bruno Mishutka given.

Integer Sequences A131306,A131316,A131535-A131552,A131604-A131606,A131609,
A131612-A131618,A131620,A131625,A131627-A131630
added.

The page on Cab Numbers added.

CYF NO. 35 solutions by Jaroslaw Wroblewski , Fred Schneider, Donovan Johnson given.

CYF NO. 34 comments by Brian Trial, Nathan Gilbert given.

CYF NO. 33 solutions by Jens Kruse Andersen, Donovan Johnson, Carlos Rivera, Jacques Bernard, Nathan Gilbert, Gaurav Singh given.

Prime curios 4,17,1687,3283,91596...16721 (52-digits),23456...56789 (62-digits),78912...67891 (355-digits),
79778...87797 (776-digits),12345...67891 (4690-digits),23456...89123 (4772-digits)
added.


Do You Know?

The Golden Ratio (Phi=1.61803...) can be expressed using four 4's as (√ 4 + √ (4!-4) )/4.

Can You Find?

CYF NO. 37
Smallest set of composite numbers x and y such that
s(x²)=s(y²)
where s(x²)and s(y²) denote the sum of aliquot divisors of x² and y² respectively.


email your answer

Contents

Note: The above topics including many more will be added in due course.

 


My Contributions in Prime Curios

Prime Curios! - site maintained by G. L. Honaker Jr. and Chris Caldwell


My Favorite Links

  • Magic Squares,Magic Stars and Other Interesting number patterns by Harvey Heinz
  • Mudd Math Fun Facts pages
  • Math Puzzles
    An interesting site with lot of math recreations by Ed Pegg Jr.
  • World of Trotter Math
    Fascinating work on Number and other math recreations by dedicated mathematics teacher Terry Trotter.

My Favorite Books

Recommended list of books for those interested in Recreational and Computational Number theory
In Association with Amazon.com


The Rail
(January, 2003)

(March, 2003)
The Busy Educator Award
(October, 2003)

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