by Marco Lucchesi |
Lucchesi's poem is found in Hinos Matematicos (Mathematical Hymns) -- and has been translated from the Portuguese by Renato Rezende. The numbers in the poem, 220 and 284, are in mathematics called amicable numbers -- the proper divisors of each one can be summed to give the other. For example: (2 + 110) + (4 + 55) + (5 + 44) + (10+22) + (11+20) + 1 = 284.
Thanks, Marco, for your poem.
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