379

This number is a prime.

+ The largest known example such that 379! - 1 and 379# + 1 are both primes. [Gupta]

+ The smallest multidigit prime consisting of distinct digits such that its largest digit is equal to the largest digit of the sum of its digits. [Russo]

+ The sum of the seven smallest primes whose last digit is seven. [Gallardo]

+ "Man o' War" is buried beneath a larger-than-life bronze statue of himself at Kentucky Horse Park, surrounded by the graves of several of his 379 children.

+ It was not until page 379 in the first edition of their pivotal "Principia Mathematica" (a 1910 text deriving logic and mathematics from an axiomatic basis) that Whitehead and Russell were able to prove the key lemma, which would later allow them to prove that 1 + 1 = 2. [Caldwell]

+ The smallest prime whose digits form a scalene triangle with prime perimeter. [Beedassy]

+ 379 is the sum of the first m odd primes, where m is the mean of p3, p7, p9. (pn being the nth prime) [Beedassy]

+ The smallest 3-digit prime with the largest product of digits for a prime sum of digits. [Loungrides]

+ In an episode of Doctor Who, the number 379 is last term in a sequence of four happy primes used as a code for unlocking a sealed door on a spaceship about to collide with a star.

+ An unknown astrologer generally referred to as 'Anonymous of 379' wrote a treatise on the fixed stars in the city of Rome.

+ The number of U. S. soldiers that died in combat during the Spanish-American War. [Suter]

+ 379 is a prime p whose square can be partitioned into parts whose sum is equal to p: 379^2 = 143641 and 14 + 364 + 1 = 379. Found by Giovanni Resta. [Rivera]

+ Smallest multidigit prime sandwiched between two palindromic primes (373, 379, 383). [Sariyar]

(There are 9 curios for this number that have not yet been approved by an editor.)

Printed from the PrimePages <t5k.org> © G. L. Honaker and Chris K. Caldwell