<p>what backs up your argument sonar?</p>
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<p>Primes are the most intersting numbers, and perfect squares come in a close second, obviously ....</p>
<p>(I do hope that you know that I am just joshing :p)</p>
<p>(also note that I did not specify what kind of prime; it may only be a Mersenne, a Sophie Germain, Fermat, et cetera. If that is the case, it's hopeless!)</p>
<p>edit: on the note of primes, if you are Ferrier's, I congratulate you on a job well done ;)</p>
<p>edit_2: xinerz, you have not added yourself yet! You can take 5^2!</p>
<p>w00t! 3^2. Lets see just how this helps my chances :)</p>
<p>uuuuuugh, I got my writing test score today ... I just realized that I didn't do the last two pages of the test! Very ****ed off right now ... my score makes sense now ... pardon the off-topic.</p>
<p>Which writing test?</p>
<p>Go lucky number 13!</p>
<p>It looks like I may make it to the ISEF!
At the NYC science fair this weekend, 6-7 distinct groups of judges grilled me on my project versus the normal 2 groups of judges, and they were unable to pose any questions that were stumpers! (That is the significance of an unusual number of judges visiting a particular project, correct?)</p>
<p>writing sat ii. I got a 680. had I actually done the last section, it'd be more of a 750 (assuming that I'd miss one or two).</p>
<p>oh well, I'm over it now. what a pain though, now I have to find another sat ii to compensate, unless I can sub in the New SAT subsection, blah.</p>
<p>Oh, I'm not sure about 13. It is the unlucky number, yet it's a prime whose digits add up to the perfect square of the first prime, which also happens to be a Sophie Germain, and the first one at that.</p>
<p>I'd say that you break even.</p>
<p>Where does the so-called unluckiness stem from? The prime-ness and perfect square-ness of the number clearly make it, even if only slightly, on the lucky side.</p>
<p>Let's say that luck can be quantified by a number x. Since its digits add up to the first perfect square, x++. If 13 is considered /the/ unlucky number, x--. Yet, it's a prime number, so x++. We end up with x == 1, so it has positive luck, equal to that of other prime numbers.</p>
<p>actually, it's the second perfect square (1 is the first), 4 = the first perfect square of a prime (2^2).</p>
<p>I'll think of something later to counter that though (I have an inkling of a good one), since physics calls right now.</p>
<p>23 beats all</p>
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<p>while this is kind of against the "rules"...what school in florida do you go to wishful_thinker?</p>
<p>lol ummm i'll PM you</p>
<p>Number 6 and number 28 will get in for sure. As well as number 496 etc.</p>
<p>why do you say that</p>
<p>argh, perfect numbers!</p>
<p>no! perfect numbers are 9, 25, 36.
because i'm being stupid and i don't know what perfect numbers are and i'm thinking they're perfect squares</p>
<p>perfect numbers have all their proper factors sum up to themselves.</p>
<p>6 has proper factors 1,2,3 that add to 6.</p>
<p>oh! <em>doh</em></p>
<p>thanks tetrahedr0n, someone who will explain rather than scoff it to me =)</p>