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Bobby Fischer issued a multipage document with 179 demands to the
World Chess Federation (FIDE) before defaulting his title to Anatoly Karpov in 1975. [Edmonds and
Eidinow]
There are 179 even days in one year. [Kik]
179 = (17 * 9) + (17 + 9). [Capelle]
Any given Major League Baseball team may potentially play 179 games in a given season (162 regular season games + maximally 17 post-season games). [Rupinski]
A winning solution to the 15-hole triangular peg solitaire game is: (4,1), (6,4), (15,6), (3,10), (13,6), (11,13), (14,12), (12,5), (10,3), (7,2), (1,4), (4,6), (6,1). The term (x,y) means move the peg in hole x to y. Not only does this solution leave the final peg in the original empty hole, but the sum of the peg holes in the solution is prime.
Hafnium-179 is the stable nuclide with the largest quadrupole moment.
The only non titanic prime (emirp) of the form p = 7^x + x^7 + x, where x is a prime (x=2). [Loungrides]
(179/971)(971/179) = -1, where ( / ) is the Legendre
symbol. No smaller emirp has this property. [Poo Sung]
179 * 971 + 179 + 971 is prime (also emirp). No smaller
emirp produces a prime in this manner. [Poo Sung]
Minuscule 179 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament.
n4 + 179 is composite for n = 1, ... , 719. [Wesolowski]
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