All the prime numbers from 67 to 97 add up to 559, and all the prime numbers from 103 to 127 also add up to 559.
559 is also the hypotenuse of Pythagorean triple 215-516-559. What is the greatest common factor of those three numbers?
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- 559 is a composite number.
- Prime factorization: 559 = 13 x 43
- The exponents in the prime factorization are 1 and 1. Adding one to each and multiplying we get (1 + 1)(1 + 1) = 2 x 2 = 4. Therefore 559 has exactly 4 factors.
- Factors of 559: 1, 13, 43, 559
- Factor pairs: 559 = 1 x 559 or 13 x 43
- 559 has no square factors that allow its square root to be simplified. √559 ≈ 23.64318
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559 is made up of sequences of additions of primes, and it’s the hypotenuse of a Pythagorean triplet? I wonder how rare that is.
Many numbers have one or the other of those properties. It’s true that relatively fewer numbers would have both.