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+ The smallest smoothly undulating palindromic prime (SUPP).

+ 10101 + 3 is prime.

+ Australia's sugar industry once imported 101 cane toads from Hawaii in the hope that they would kill cane beetles threatening their sugar crop.

+ 101 = 5! - 4! + 3! - 2! + 1!

+ Depeche Mode named one of their albums "101". [Gevisier]

+ The 101 proof of the Kentucky bourbon Wild Turkey is its most common bottling.

+ 101 = 13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 (the sum of five consecutive primes). [De Geest]

+ Using the alphabet code A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, ... , Z = 26: D + I + V + I + S + I + O + N = 101. [Cox]

+ The plot of Walt Disney's cartoon film One Hundred and One Dalmatians (often abbreviated as 101 Dalmatians) centers on the fate of the kidnapped puppies of Pongo and Perdita.

+ 101 is the smallest three-digit prime whose digits are not prime. [Gevisier]

+ 101 is the largest known prime of the form 10n + 1. [Kulsha]

+ Author James Branch Cabell was born at 101 East Franklin Street, Richmond, Virginia.

+ 101 is the smallest odd prime such that p - k! for 1 < k! < p is composite. [Russo]

+ The smallest prime whose sum of digits and digital length are consecutive primes. [Silva]

+ The only prime of the form 1010...101. [Goldstein]

+ Room 101 was the place where your worst fears were realized in George Orwell's classic Nineteen Eighty-Four.

+ Professor Nash's office number in the movie A Beautiful Mind.

+ The Challenge Coin was issued to Vietnam Veterans of the 101st Airborne Division. [Ziccardi]

+ The number of digits in the product of the 39 successive primes produced by the formula n2 + n + 41, where n = 1 to 39. This formula was used by Charles Babbage to demonstrate the capabilities of his Difference Engine (1819-1822). [Haga]

+ Combine two digits of a number in order (from right to left) alternating them with + then -. If the result is 0 or a multiple of 101, the prime number 101 divides it. E.g., Is 575519513 divisible by 101? 13 - 95 + 51 - 75 + 05 = -101. Yes! [Luhn]

+ The largest prime factor of smallest palindromic Carmichael number (101101). [Gupta]

+ Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was 101 when she died on Easter Saturday 2002. [Croll]

+ The smallest palindromic prime p such that largest odd factor of p-1 is a non-prime (i.e., composite or 1). [Russo]

+ Thor Heyerdahl's book Kon-Tiki is about his harrowing 101-day feat of crossing the Pacific on a balsa log raft which made him world famous.

+ The smallest prime whose sum of the digits is less than the number of digits. [Murthy]

+ The smallest odd prime which can be represented as the sum of a square and its reverse, i.e., 100 + 001 = 101. [Gupta]

+ The concatenation of all palindromes from 1 up to 101 is prime. [De Geest]

+ The greatest prime factor of any 4-digit repdigit is 101. [La Haye]

+ The Math Forum was one of PC Magazine's Top 101 Most Incredibly Useful Web sites in the Information category for the year 2003.

+ Room 101 is the name of a British TV series in which celebrities are invited to discuss their (often whimsical) pet hates with the host.

+ In a short section titled "Prime Numbers ... and Monkeys" of Danica McKellar's bestselling book Math Doesn't Suck, the following statement can be found: "It's hard to believe that there's no way to evenly divide up 101, but it's true!"

+ Christopher Hornsrud, Prime Minister of Norway in 1928, is believed to be the longest lived Prime Minister of any country. He died at age 101. [Duffy]

+ The number 101^2 + 97^2 +...+ 3^2 + 2^2 is prime. [Patterson]

+ A radio astronomer in the movie Contact makes the statement "OK, a hundred and one, the pulse sequence through every prime number between two and a hundred and one." [Haas]

+ Aging 101 is a series of general information articles on aging that school teachers and their students can use in a variety of courses. Its intent is to have you make it until at least 101 years of age.

+ 101^101-100^100+99^99-98^98+...-2^2+1^1 is prime. Note that 101 is the only known odd prime p, such that p^p-(p-1)^(p-1)+...-2^2+1^1 is prime. [Firoozbakht]

+ The British lost interest in airships because of the crash of R-101.

+ The last five digits of 101^101 are 10101. [Hu]

+ 101 is the sum of all products p*q involving the four first primes, i.e., 2*3 + 2*5 + 2*7 + 3*5 + 3*7 + 5*7. [Gallardo]

+ 101 is a common solution of the following four equations: 8^N+N=prime, 3^N-2^N=prime, 12^N-11^N=prime, and 75^N-74^N=prime. [Simon]

+ The first odd prime for which the Mertens function M(n) = 0. [Post]

+ 101 is the first three-digit prime number that can be both read backward and upside-down without being changed. [Mosse]

+ The sum of 10 first primes plus 1. Note that 101 is 10 and 1 concatenated. [Abramson]

+ A googol (10^100) contains 101 digits. The search engine Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.

+ The smallest prime which requires a multidigit prime number of digits (base 10) and a prime number of chisel strokes as a sans serif Roman numeral. Curiously, this is true whether one considers "C" to be one stroke (a circular arc) or two strokes (like a left angle-bracket or less-than sign). [Post]

+ The smallest prime with digit 0. [Beedassy]

+ "Hundred and one" represents one of the 101 partitions of the letters used in this order. [Beedassy]

+ -101 + 9789837973716761595347434137312923191713117532 is prime. Note the descending concatenation of all primes smaller than 101. [Silva]

+ The sum of the first eight semiprimes. [Silva]

+ The smallest palindromic prime that uses a prime number of distinct nonprime digits. [Beedassy]

+ The smallest Cyclops prime. [Pol]

+ The smallest anti-Yarborough prime (i.e., made up of digits 0 and 1 only) whose binary representation (11001012) is also an anti-Yarborough prime in base ten. [Beedassy]

+ The sum of the first 10 non-composite numbers. [Silva]

+ It is not unlikely to hear prime numbers discussed on the 101st day of the year.

+ The smallest palindromic irregular prime. [Poo Sung]

+ The smallest prime number that is displayed on a 12-hour digital clock. [Fellows]




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