[meteorite-list] New CV3 NWA 3216

[Gerald Flaherty]

Marvelous with [m]nathmatical gymnastics as always Doug alias Pythagoras 
[spelling] rival to the secret pythagorians!!!!!!!!!
A non mathmatical admirer, Jerry
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From: <MexicoDoug at aol.com>
To: <entropydave at ntlworld.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New CV3 NWA 3216


> Hola Dave, I checked your number as you encouraged - I think your are
> precisely 3000 too high from being a perfect number (the kind that are 
> "sort of  the
> exact opposite of prime numbers")!  So due to this excess, your  meteorite 
> is
> not a PERFECT NUMBER it is an ABUNDANT NUMBER according to the  Greeks.
> Everyone always thinks they have a perfect number of a meteorite  and 
> don't feel
> bad if it usually ends up this way.  As for the summing and  multiplying 
> of the
> digits, you may have misread Euclid and even your number  would not have 
> been
> very recognizable for this in greek numerals (hence the  importance of 
> using
> divisor sets and not arbitrary notation).  But if you  want to be special 
> your
> 3216 is special because 3216x1, 3216x2, 3216x3, 3216x4,  3216x5, 3216x6, 
> all
> contain the digit 6 in their product, 3216 is the smallest  number with 
> this
> property, and six is a perfect number because all of its  divisors 
> multiplied
> together equal it: 1x2x3=6.  Six is the smallest  perfect number and the
> Greeks, Bible, etc. considered it magical for this  reason.  Not 3216 
> which is a
> non-unique collection of random digits that  just as well could have been 
> 2316,
> or 1326 or 1236 or 2136 or 3126 and do all  those things you said.  It is 
> not
> even a triangular number which you would  have had to wait for NWA 3240 to
> get...
>
> You may have an abundant number,  but I'm sure it will always be just 
> perfect
> to you!   Congratulations.
> Saludos, Doug
>
>
>
>
> Dave H. calculated:
>
> I am pleased to announce my first CV3 meteorite, formally classified by 
> the
> Natural History Museum and has been given the name of
> NWA 3216 - for  the Greek scholars amongst you, t3216 is reagrds as a
> perfect number" as  3x2x1=6 as well as 3+2+1=6....
> There are not a lot of these numbers around,  and as I have been working 
> on a
> distributive processing project called GIMPS  for 9 years now discovering 
> the
> biggest prime numbers, which are sort of the  exact opposite of a perfect
> number, I feel this is most  appropriate.
>
> It is unusual in that it has Sodalite in it - Sodalite,  containing 
> volatile
> elements such as Na and Cl usually are lost if heated  above about 150 deg 
> C
> - so this makes it pretty interesting and  aqueous!
>
> I'd like to publically thank Drs Sara Russell, Mike Zolensky et  al. for
> helping me to make a very little mark and contribution to the science  of
> meteoritics.
> I own the main mass of 44g, 20g is at the NHM as their  "type specimen" 
> and
> it is beautiful to look  at!
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/d.harris580/nwa3216.jpg
>
> Well, I know  that most of you out there have done this a million times 
> and
> it's no big  deal, but for me, it has done wonders for my self esteem!!!
>
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