Numbers

Numbers I like

• -273.15
  • Absolute zero in Celcius degrees
• 0
  • One of the easiest ways to make a program panic: divide something by 0
  • I like the idea that it was invented very lately, I still don’t get how people were doing
• 2
  • The integer frontier between single and multiple worlds
• 3
  • First Fermat number: F0=2^2^0+1
• 3.14159265359
  • PI, the most beautiful, present and magic number in the (known) universe ❤️
• 3,142857142857143
  • Easy to remember pi approximation: 22/7
• 5
  • Second Fermat number: F1=2^2^1+1
• 8
  • This number can be rotated 180 degrees, flipped horizontally, and vertically, it will always be written 8
• 9
  • The decimal number with the highest chance of being unused in other bases than 10
  • When you play the game of adding every digits in a number, the 9 is like a reset except when it finishes by 9
• 17
  • Third Fermat number: F2=2^2^2+1
• 42
  • the answer to the everything,
  • a tuition-free school
• 97
  • The french-spoken number with the highest density of nonsense for a foreigner; quatre-vingt-dix-sept which is litteraly: 4-20-10-7
• 257
  • Fourth Fermat number: F3=2^2^3+1
• 1337
  • Leet code, (Can be considered as a very ineffective cryptography)
  • Geek, gamer, counter-strike, a culture I like and that instantly make me feel happy
• 1988
  • My birth year
• 1994
  • The birth year of my brother
  • The year of 3 of my favorite Jim Carrey’s movies: Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, The Mask
• 2015
  • The birth year of my first daughter
• 2018
  • The birth year of my second daughter
• 8173
  • My pin-code… :) just a joke
  • A french explicit word in french in leet code, easy to use and remember when I need to choose a number
• 65 537
  • Used as exponent in RSA by default
  • First prime number after 2^16
  • Only two 1s in the binary format: 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000001
  • Fifth Fermat number: F4=2^2^4+1
• 1 270 013
  • Prime number that can be allocated as loopback interface (127.0.0.13)
• 570 114 600
  • My birth timestamp
• 4 294 967 297
  • Sixth Fermat number: F5=2^2^5+1