Archive for April 9, 2013
Rootin’ Around
The digits of today’s date can be concatenated to make the four-digit number 4913, and 4913 = 173. As it turns out, this is the only date in 2013 for which the concatenation of the digits forms a number that has a square, cube, fourth, fifth, or sixth root that is a whole number.
I’m sure there are more useless pieces of trivia, but I can’t think of one right now.
[Update, 4/9/13: Perhaps the following isn’t more useless, but it’s certainly not more useful, either. I failed to mention the trivial numerology contained within today’s date: 4 + 9 = 13.]
In any case, this fact about the cube root of 4913 got me to thinking about some of my favorite things.
My favorite drink:
My favorite highway:
My favorite LeVar Burton movie:
My favorite types of efforts:
My favorite idiom: