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2025 is a special year

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Kokubunji, 2025.01.08

One of my colleagues posted this:

Let’s make 2025 a fantastic year! Mathematically it already is.

 - It is a special square number: 2025 = 45² where 45 = 20+25.

- This is the only square year you will experience. 44² = 1936, 46² = 2116.

- 2025 is the sum of the cubes of the numbers 1 through 9:

1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³+ 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³= 2025

- 2025 is the square of the sum of the numbers 1 through 9:

(1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)² = 2025

That is the sum of all numbers in the 9 by 9 multiplication table.

You can decompose 2025 in prime numbers as = 3⁴ * 5² or as 1⁶ * 3⁴ * 5² * 7⁰ using all numbers 0 through 7, with ascending odd numbers as base and descending even numbers as exponents.

He linked to the video below.

rand()m quote

Work is about a daily search for meaning as well as daily bread; for recognition as well as cash; for astonishment rather than torpor; in short for a sort of life, rather than a monday-to-friday sort of dying.

— Studs Terkel