"I have now come to the most difficult part of my story."
"265" — Page number and centered square number
"153" — Triangular number (as noted by St. Augustine)
"265/153" — Object Lesson
An accurate description of such number lore:
"These are odd facts, very suitable for puzzle columns
and likely to amuse amateurs, but there is nothing
in them which appeals much to a mathematician.
The proofs are neither difficult nor interesting—
merely a little tiresome. The theorems are not serious;
and it is plain that one reason (though perhaps not the
most important) is the extreme speciality of both the
enunciations and the proofs, which are not capable of
any significant generalization." — G. H. Hardy
See also some remarks on figurate numbers in this journal.
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Nothing went wrong at the back of the north wind. "What a queer place it must be!" "It's a very good place." "Do you want to go back again?" "No; I don't think I have left it; I feel it here, somewhere." "Did the people there look pleased?" "Yes— quite pleased, only a little sad." "Then they didn't look glad?" "They looked as if they were waiting to be gladder some day." |