ramsaur
06-23-2006, 12:07 AM
today is my birthday and with the money i'm getting i'm saving up for a new camera since mine right now is about 2 yrs old and i'm to the point where i need a new one i'm looking at a canon ZR 200 or 300, GL, or XL
MiniMan
06-23-2006, 12:28 AM
Happy birthday, dude! :)
How old?
ramsaur
06-23-2006, 06:59 AM
Happy birthday, dude! :)
How old?
17 years old
Anhar Miah
06-23-2006, 09:10 AM
Mathematically speaking
Seventeen is the 7th prime number. The next prime is nineteen, with which it comprises a twin prime. 17 is the sum of the first four primes. 17 is the sixth Mersenne prime exponent, yielding 131071. 17 is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n − 1.
17 is the third Fermat prime. Since 17 is a Fermat prime, heptadecagons can be drawn with compass and ruler. This was proved by Karl Friedrich Gauss. 17 is the second and last Genocchi prime. It is also the third Stern prime.
There are exactly seventeen two-dimensional space (plane symmetry) groups. These are sometimes called wallpaper groups, as they represent the seventeen possible symmetry types that can be used for wallpaper.
Like 41, the number 17 is a prime that yields primes in the polynomial n2 + n + p, for all positive n < p - 1.
Consider a sequence of real numbers between 0 and 1 such that the first two lie in different halves of this interval, the first three in different thirds, and so forth. The maximum possible length of such a sequence is 17 (Berlekamp & Graham, 1970, example 63).
16 and 18 unit squares can each be formed into rectangles with perimeter equal to the area; and they are the only solutions. The Platonists regarded this as a sign of their peculiar propriety; and Plutarch explains that 17 is therefore an unlucky number.
In base 9, the smallest prime with a composite sum of digits is 17.
17 is known as the Feller number, after the famous mathematician William Feller who taught at Princeton University for many years. Feller would say, when discussing an unsolved mathematical problem, that if it could be proved for the case n = 17 then it could be proved for all positive integers n. He would also say in lectures, "Let's try this for an arbitrary value of n, say n=17."
17! = 355687428096000
Happy 17th !
Anhar
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Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17_(number)
Solomojo
06-23-2006, 09:30 AM
my brain just mathematically melted. Bappy Hirthday Rammer!