Saturday 2 July 2016

Blog #83 - Amazing 65536!

65536 is synonymous with computers as 64 KB translates to 65536 Bytes and it is a commonly used term in day to day life of a Computer personnel

65536 has also many factors of 2's multiple - 2 ^ 16, 4 ^ 8, 256 x 256, 16 ^ 4 and so on

But a lesser known fact of 65536 is what I am focussing on and is exactly the opposite of the above attributes. Check this out...

Most of the odd number subset of 65536 is either a prime or product of two primes

a) 65 - 13 x 5

b) 655 - 131 x 5

c) 6553 - Prime

d) 553 - 7 x 79

e) 55 - 11 x 5

f) 53 - Prime

g) 653 - Prime

Go one step further and add or subtract combination of digits which are a subset

h) 65 + 536 - 601 - Prime

i) 655 + 36 - 691 - Prime

j) 655- 36 - 619 - Prime

k) 6 + 553 - 559 - 13 x 43

l) 6553 + 6 - 6559 - 7 x 937

m) 6553 - 6 - 6547 - Prime

n) 553 - 66 - 487 - Prime

Wow... A number which has 2 and its multiples as factors exhibits a completely different behaviour when the individual digits combine


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