Number Recreations

Shyam Sunder Gupta
IRSE, FIE, FIPWE,
Former Principal Chief Engineer,
North Western Railway, Jaipur, India-302017
email: guptass@rediffmail.com
http://www.shyamsundergupta.com/

What is New? (Update 3 July, 2025)


Do You Know?

    The only known example of a Pythagorean triangle (a, b, c) where a, b, and c are triangular numbers is (8778, 10296, 13530).

Can You Find?

CYF NO. 63
The five numbers (positive and/or negative, all with different absolute values) each consisting of five digits, whose sum of fifth powers gives the smallest absolute value > 0, or as small as you can (Contributed by Patrick De Geest ).

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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

I ranked second among the prime curios submitters in the world, with more than 1300 prime curios that list interesting things about prime numbers.


My Favorite Links

  • Magic Squares,Magic Stars and Other Interesting number patterns by Harvey Heinz
  • Mudd Math Fun Facts pages
  • On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences OEIS
  • Math Puzzles
    An interesting site with lot of math recreations by Ed Pegg Jr.

My Favorite Books

Recommended list of books for those interested in Recreational and Computational Number theory
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The Rail
(January, 2003)

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

Send me e-mail at guptass@rediffmail.com

This page was last updated on 3rd July, 2025.

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