From today's featured article - 43
43 is a highly controversial number. There are two conflicting schools of thought on the subject that will be discussed here. Followers of Pythagoras claim that 43 is the mother of all numbers and perfect for every purpose, whereas followers of Eisenstein claim that 42, rather than 43, is the perfect number. Throughout history the relative merits of 42 and 43 have been discussed at length, but no conclusion has ever been reached on the matter.
Pythagoras, being a typical famous Greek mathematician, used to think of 43 as the mother of all numbers, good and bad. He defined strict limits to what could be achieved with mixing escatological survey with classical geometry.
Pythagoras set out from the port of Athens, Pireus, pursuing the fleet of Agamemnon. His mind was on his recent findings of 42 when he noticed that there was a box of oranges on the boat. He was working on one of his mathematical projects at the time, so naturally he decided to count up the oranges to see if they could provide any insight into his studies. He found that there were 43 oranges. Because there were 43 oranges, he decided that 43 must be the perfect number.
Agamemnon and his men happened to be travelling in a nearby ship, and they hailed Pythagoras. One of them asked Pythagoras for an orange. Pythagoras considered the request. If he gave away an orange, the 43 would no longer be together, and there would not be a perfect number of oranges. That was out of the question. But it would be terribly rude not to give away any oranges at all. Eventually he settled on giving away all 43 of them. (Full article...)
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