Friday, July 27, 2012

Vampire Numbers

At this point, you may be thinking to yourself, "Oi vey, not more things about vampires!" Well this is ver different I tell you. Anyway, it's on Wikipedia so it must be legitimate, right?




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n   Count of vampire numbers of length n
4             7
6           148
8           3228
10        108454
12       4390670
14      208423682


In mathematics, a vampire number (or true vampire number) is a composite natural number v, with an even number of digits n, that can be factored into two integers x and y each with n/2 digits and not both with trailing zeroes, where v contains precisely all the digits from x and from y, in any order, counting multiplicity. x and y are called the fangs.

For example: 1260 is a vampire number, with 21 and 60 as fangs, since 21 × 60 = 1260. However, 126000 (which can be expressed as 210 × 600) is not, as both 210 and 600 have trailing zeroes. Similarly, 1023 (which can be expressed as 31 × 33) is not, because although 1023 contains all the digits of 31 and 33, the list of digits of the factors does not coincide with the list of digits of the original number.

Vampire numbers first appeared in a 1994 post by Clifford A. Pickover to the Usenet group sci.math, and the article he later wrote was published in chapter 30 of his book Keys to Infinity.

The vampire numbers are:

1260, 1395, 1435, 1530, 1827, 2187, 6880, 102510, 104260, 105210, 105264, 105750, 108135, 110758, 115672, 116725, 117067, 118440, 120600, 123354, 124483, 125248, 125433, 125460, 125500, ... (sequence A014575 in OEIS)

There are many known sequences of infinitely many vampire numbers following a pattern, such as:1530 = 30×51, 150300 = 300×501, 15003000 = 3000×5001, ...

A vampire number can have multiple distinct pairs of fangs. The first of infinitely many vampire numbers with 2 pairs of fangs:Multiple fang pairs

125460 = 204 × 615 = 246 × 510

The first with 3 pairs of fangs:13078260 = 1620 × 8073 = 1863 × 7020 = 2070 × 6318

The first with 4 pairs of fangs:16758243290880 = 1982736 × 8452080 = 2123856 × 7890480 = 2751840 × 6089832 = 2817360 × 5948208

The first with 5 pairs of fangs:24959017348650 = 2947050 × 8469153 = 2949705 × 8461530 = 4125870 × 6049395 = 4129587 × 6043950 = 4230765 × 5899410
[edit]Variants

Pseudovampire numbers are similar to vampire numbers, except that the fangs of an n-digit pseudovampire number need not be of length n/2 digits. Pseudovampire numbers can have an odd number of digits, for example 126 = 6×21.

More generally, you can allow more than two fangs. In this case, vampire numbers are numbers n which can be factorized using the digits of n. For example, 1395 = 5×9×31. This sequence starts (sequence A020342 in OEIS):126, 153, 688, 1206, 1255, 1260, 1395, ...

A prime vampire number, as defined by Carlos Rivera in 2002, is a true vampire number whose fangs are its prime factors. The first few prime vampire numbers are:117067, 124483, 146137, 371893, 536539

As of 2006 the largest known is the square (94892254795×1045418+1)2, found by Jens K. Andersen in 2002.

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Friday, July 20, 2012

Nicknames for Somebody




I once knew somebody. Wait that was weird; let me start over.

I was in a position at one point in time where I wanted to give this dude I had just met a nickname. But I was tired so I decided to wait and come up with some later. But I also knew that I would be shot down for some of the names that I came up with. To counteract this, I created a list of nicknames that he could choose from. He still hasn't chosen one, but I hope that he does some day. Here are the nicknames that I presented to him. Note: his name is not Corbin. I changed it to conceal his identity.

Also, the ones in italics are not mine, I repeat, NOT MINE! They were generated off of the Internet.


  • The Mane of Justice
  • Simba Smith
  • Calm, Cool, Collected, Corbin
  • The Man of Justice
  • World-Shifter
  • Corbin “Thistle Sifter” Smith
  • Zhu Zhu Beans
  • Corbin “lefty” Smith
  • Your local canoe guy
  • Sweet Nostrils
  • Lonely Guy
  • Broken Mafiosi
  • The Compass
  • Emilio
  • Bam Bam Man
  • The Crime Solver
  • Cooltgasera
  • Beygame
  • Gamegume
  • Nuhakol
  • The Caped Corbinader
  • Smith Meister Meister Smithster
  • Mr. S
  • Corbin, the conqueror of Columbia
  • Dedalus Digalus
  • Corbin Dumbledore
  • Asterix
  • Ampersand
  • Zebadiah
  • Doc
  • Mr. 7
  • Detective of Chivalry
  • Comic Relief
  • Corbin Relief
  • Diva
  • Corbin “Showtime” Johnson
  • Sparky Smith
  • Humble Bumble
  • Pie Guy
  • Pi Guy
  • Pi Man
  • Pie Man
  • Pie Gentleman
  • Hoopla Up In Here
  • Shazaam
  • A Hint of Lemon
  • Canned Beans
  • Killer of Ladies’ Spleens
  • Ctrl + Alt + Delete
  • Delete + Alt + Ctrl
  • Whoosh
  • Shotgun wielder
  • Human Candy
  • The Easter Bunny in Disguise
  • Agent 11
  • Agent 3
  • Agent Orange
  • Agent Orange Hair
  • Gandalf the (Insert Hair Color)
  • Ricky Henderson
  • Robert Randolph without the Family Band
  • Titan
  • Comet Boy
  • Wonder Lad
  • What’s His Face
  • Touoi ‘rug
  • Old Fashioned Cheese
  • Cowboy
  • Ducky
  • Sugar
  • Papa
  • Lothario
  • Supernova
  • Ziggy
  • Asher
  • Willy Foo Foo
  • Mr. Magnificent
  • Sparky
  • Mister Googlehead
  • Dollface
  • Tons of Fun
  • Johnny Fanny Gina Head
  • Captain Awesome and Mr. Fabulous
  • Porkchop
  • Happy Happy Joy Joy
  • Awesome McAwesome
  • Spunky
  • Ross the Boss
  • Jimmy the Dude
  • Weird Beard
  • Spanky
  • Treebeard
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Friday, July 13, 2012

Verbal Jousts

Don't know what they are? Well that's okay because I can definitely define that for you. Well maybe my definition isn't the exact definition but in my mind it is close enough. A "verbal joust" is something that would go along the lines of an "Oh, snap!" situation. It is a phrase where the listener is supposed to feel even more defeated.

At this point, I must admit to something. I've been on a really long streak of saying these. I apologize now to my friends because these were so good that they were feeling sad all the time. But before I stop saying these off the hizzle phrases all the time, I feel I should write some of these down so everyone can use these at some point in time if they so choose.

  • Did a mouse trap just go off? because I just heard, "Oh, snap!"
  • Do you need some ointment for that burn?
  • Are you a computer 'cause you just got shut down!
  • Are you a car with a flat tire 'cause you just got jacked up!
  • Is your arm okay? 'cause you just got the cold shoulder.
  • Your village called, they are missing their idiot!
  • Your town called, they are missing their crier!
  • Your city called, they are missing you. You know... in general.
  • Canada called, just to brag, really.
  • Did you go to a dollar store? 'Cause that shot was cheap!
Okay, there aren't a lot of those phrases, but I have my reasons.
  1. I forgot some of them. I lost my really cool sheet of them
  2. I don't want to share all of them with you
  3. I don't want you to have to read all of the bad phrases that I came up with
Use these phrases wisely.


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