A number definition is "efficient" if it has fewer words than the number does when said in English.
E.g. 125 is "One hundred and twenty five", which is 5 words. So "Five Cubed" would be an efficient way of defining it.
100 and below are only one or two words, but numbers above 100 are at least 4 words.
@iamatigersaid A number definition is "efficient" if it has fewer words than the number does when said in English.
E.g. 125 is "One hundred and twenty five", which is 5 words. So "Five Cubed" would be an efficient way of defining it.
100 and below are only one or two words, but numbers above 100 are at least 4 words.
@iamatigersaid A number definition is "efficient" if it has fewer words than the number does when said in English.
E.g. 125 is "One hundred and twenty five", which is 5 words. So "Five Cubed" would be an efficient way of defining it.
100 and below are only one or two words, but numbers above 100 are at least 4 words.
Can we find efficient definitions for 101 to 199?
You can quickly eliminate squares (eg 121 = eleven squared)
and all other powers (ie cubes, quartics, quintics, etc.)
You can eliminate members of sets
(eg 496 = third perfect, 231 = twenty-first triangular, 101= twenty-sixth prime)
@joe-shmosaid So, 103 is the nth prime, 104 is “fifty two doubled”, or perhaps even more efficient “Thirteen Octupled”, 105 is “thirty five tripled” etc...
Seems pretty solid to me.
Even a number like 133 can be called "nineteen septupled".