Back عدد مؤلف للغاية Arabic Hochzusammengesetzte Zahl German Highly composite number English Altkomponita nombro Esperanto Número altamente compuesto Spanish Korkeasti yhdistetty luku Finnish Nombre hautement composé French מספר פריק במיוחד HE Erősen összetett számok Hungarian Bilangan komposit tinggi ID
A highly composite number in math (also called anti-prime) is a real number with more divisors than any real number smaller than it.
Jean-Pierre Kahane thought that Plato might have known about highly composite numbers. This is because he chose 5040 as a good number of citizens in a city as 5040 has more divisors than any numbers less than it.[1][2]
- ↑ Kahane, Jean-Pierre (February 2015), "Bernoulli convolutions and self-similar measures after Erdős: A personal hors d'oeuvre", Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 62 (2): 136–140. Kahane cites Plato's Laws, 771c.
- ↑ Ramanujan, S. (1915). "Highly composite numbers" (PDF). Proc. London Math. Soc. Series 2. 14: 347–409. doi:10.1112/plms/s2_14.1.347. JFM 45.1248.01.