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	the number 6

mona

7-24-2008 8:26 AM

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8-10-2008 11:11 PM

neo770

I don't think I really wanted to know that! But interesting nevertheless...

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c8d5487b-e3e8-4243-88a6-090f1e065e88/4D506ACE-6524-4F0C-BF18-A3E625C9E47B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=6_%28number%29&oldid=225829918" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=6_%28number%29&oldid=225829918" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=6_%28number%29&oldid=225829918"><DIV>6</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=6_%28number%29&oldid=225829918"><P>Six is the second smallest <A title="Composite number" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_number">composite number</A>, its proper <A title="Divisor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisor">divisors</A> being <A title="1 (number)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%28number%29">1</A>, <A title="2 (number)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%28number%29">2</A> and <A title="3 (number)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_%28number%29">3</A>. Since six equals the sum of these proper divisors, six is a <A title="Perfect number" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number">perfect number</A>. As a perfect number, 6 is related to the <A title="Mersenne prime" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime">Mersenne prime</A> 3, since 2<SUP>1</SUP>(2<SUP>2</SUP> - 1) = 6. (The next perfect number is <A title="28 (number)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_%28number%29">28</A>.) Six is the only number that is both the sum and the product of three consecutive positive numbers.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><A title="" href="#cite_note-0">[1]</A></SUP></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4D506ACE-6524-4F0C-BF18-A3E625C9E47B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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