[meteorite-list] New CV3 NWA 3216

From: Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Jun 12 21:38:52 2005
Message-ID: <002201c56fb8$90a894c0$2f01a8c0_at_Dell>

Marvelous with [m]nathmatical gymnastics as always Doug alias Pythagoras
[spelling] rival to the secret pythagorians!!!!!!!!!
A non mathmatical admirer, Jerry
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New CV3 NWA 3216


> Hola Dave, I checked your number as you encouraged - I think your are
> precisely 3000 too high from being a perfect number (the kind that are
> "sort of the
> exact opposite of prime numbers")! So due to this excess, your meteorite
> is
> not a PERFECT NUMBER it is an ABUNDANT NUMBER according to the Greeks.
> Everyone always thinks they have a perfect number of a meteorite and
> don't feel
> bad if it usually ends up this way. As for the summing and multiplying
> of the
> digits, you may have misread Euclid and even your number would not have
> been
> very recognizable for this in greek numerals (hence the importance of
> using
> divisor sets and not arbitrary notation). But if you want to be special
> your
> 3216 is special because 3216x1, 3216x2, 3216x3, 3216x4, 3216x5, 3216x6,
> all
> contain the digit 6 in their product, 3216 is the smallest number with
> this
> property, and six is a perfect number because all of its divisors
> multiplied
> together equal it: 1x2x3=6. Six is the smallest perfect number and the
> Greeks, Bible, etc. considered it magical for this reason. Not 3216
> which is a
> non-unique collection of random digits that just as well could have been
> 2316,
> or 1326 or 1236 or 2136 or 3126 and do all those things you said. It is
> not
> even a triangular number which you would have had to wait for NWA 3240 to
> get...
>
> You may have an abundant number, but I'm sure it will always be just
> perfect
> to you! Congratulations.
> Saludos, Doug
>
>
>
>
> Dave H. calculated:
>
> I am pleased to announce my first CV3 meteorite, formally classified by
> the
> Natural History Museum and has been given the name of
> NWA 3216 - for the Greek scholars amongst you, t3216 is reagrds as a
> perfect number" as 3x2x1=6 as well as 3+2+1=6....
> There are not a lot of these numbers around, and as I have been working
> on a
> distributive processing project called GIMPS for 9 years now discovering
> the
> biggest prime numbers, which are sort of the exact opposite of a perfect
> number, I feel this is most appropriate.
>
> It is unusual in that it has Sodalite in it - Sodalite, containing
> volatile
> elements such as Na and Cl usually are lost if heated above about 150 deg
> C
> - so this makes it pretty interesting and aqueous!
>
> I'd like to publically thank Drs Sara Russell, Mike Zolensky et al. for
> helping me to make a very little mark and contribution to the science of
> meteoritics.
> I own the main mass of 44g, 20g is at the NHM as their "type specimen"
> and
> it is beautiful to look at!
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/d.harris580/nwa3216.jpg
>
> Well, I know that most of you out there have done this a million times
> and
> it's no big deal, but for me, it has done wonders for my self esteem!!!
>
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