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The Smallest Weird Number is track number 9 on the Geogaddi album. An excerpt of the track appears in the video portion of the Trans Canada Highway Microsite.
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* [[The Smallest Weird Number]] is 70. As in Music70, [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]'s own label. A "weird number" is a number that is "abundant" but not "semi-perfect". Meaning? Take all the "proper divisors" of 70 (i.e. all the divisors of 70 except for 70 itself). They are 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 35. When the proper divisors add up to more than the original number, the original number is said to be abundant. For 70: 1+2+5+7+10+14+35 = 74 > 70, so 70 is "abundant". Now, if there was some SUBSET of these numbers 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 35 which added up to 70, then 70 would be said to be "semi-perfect" (or "pseudoperfect") But there isn't. Try it. You can make 71 by missing out the 1 and the 2, or you can make 69 by missing out the 5, but you can't make 70. I hope that explanation is clear. The first few weird numbers are: 70, 836, 4030, 5830, 7192, 7912, 9272, 10430, 10570, 10792. You can find a longer list of weird numbers in the "online encyclopedia of integer sequences", from which my shorter listing was taken. This explanation of weird numbers by [DC]. | * [[The Smallest Weird Number]] is 70. As in Music70, [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]'s own label. A "weird number" is a number that is "abundant" but not "semi-perfect". Meaning? Take all the "proper divisors" of 70 (i.e. all the divisors of 70 except for 70 itself). They are 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 35. When the proper divisors add up to more than the original number, the original number is said to be abundant. For 70: 1+2+5+7+10+14+35 = 74 > 70, so 70 is "abundant". Now, if there was some SUBSET of these numbers 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 35 which added up to 70, then 70 would be said to be "semi-perfect" (or "pseudoperfect") But there isn't. Try it. You can make 71 by missing out the 1 and the 2, or you can make 69 by missing out the 5, but you can't make 70. I hope that explanation is clear. The first few weird numbers are: 70, 836, 4030, 5830, 7192, 7912, 9272, 10430, 10570, 10792. You can find a longer list of weird numbers in the "online encyclopedia of integer sequences", from which my shorter listing was taken. This explanation of weird numbers by [DC]. | ||
* Even though the track runs for 1:17 minutes, the melody cuts out at exactly 1:10 (70 seconds). | * Even though the track runs for 1:17 minutes, the melody cuts out at exactly 1:10 (70 seconds). | ||
| + | *If the time of the track (117) were a permission of a file set through chmod (chmod 117 filename) then the Mnemonic Permission would be user 001 --x, group 001 --x, other 111 rwx (---x--xrwx). The binary goes from 0 (000) to 7 (111), and this file filename would be really free-for-all. Changing permissions with "umask" requires subtracting the Mnemonic Permission from 666, and 666 - 117 = 549, => umask 549 | ||
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Revision as of 18:10, 11 November 2014
| The Smallest Weird Number | |
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| Running time | 1:17 |
| Appears on | Geogaddi |
Title
In mathematics, the smallest weird number is 70. 70 is part of the name of the band's private label (music70); sixtyten is another way of saying 70.
Samples/Lyrics
- At 0:03, the ending of "When the Music Starts to Play" by The Incredible String Band is heard in reverse and at a lower speed. The sample seems to have been taken from an old phonograph record, as crackling is present.
- Track 10 from side B of Random 35 Tracks Tape appears in reverse at 0:11. Reverb has been applied to the last chord heard in the present track.
Comments
- The Smallest Weird Number is 70. As in Music70, BoC's own label. A "weird number" is a number that is "abundant" but not "semi-perfect". Meaning? Take all the "proper divisors" of 70 (i.e. all the divisors of 70 except for 70 itself). They are 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 35. When the proper divisors add up to more than the original number, the original number is said to be abundant. For 70: 1+2+5+7+10+14+35 = 74 > 70, so 70 is "abundant". Now, if there was some SUBSET of these numbers 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 35 which added up to 70, then 70 would be said to be "semi-perfect" (or "pseudoperfect") But there isn't. Try it. You can make 71 by missing out the 1 and the 2, or you can make 69 by missing out the 5, but you can't make 70. I hope that explanation is clear. The first few weird numbers are: 70, 836, 4030, 5830, 7192, 7912, 9272, 10430, 10570, 10792. You can find a longer list of weird numbers in the "online encyclopedia of integer sequences", from which my shorter listing was taken. This explanation of weird numbers by [DC].
- Even though the track runs for 1:17 minutes, the melody cuts out at exactly 1:10 (70 seconds).
- If the time of the track (117) were a permission of a file set through chmod (chmod 117 filename) then the Mnemonic Permission would be user 001 --x, group 001 --x, other 111 rwx (---x--xrwx). The binary goes from 0 (000) to 7 (111), and this file filename would be really free-for-all. Changing permissions with "umask" requires subtracting the Mnemonic Permission from 666, and 666 - 117 = 549, => umask 549