From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/255_(number) :
- Its factorization makes it a sphenic number.
- Since 255 = 2^8 – 1, it is a Mersenne number (though not a pernicious one), and the fourth such number not to be a prime number.
- It is a perfect totient number, the smallest such number to be neither a power of three nor thrice a prime.
- Since 255 is the product of the first three Fermat primes, the regular 255-gon is constructible.
- In base 10, it is a self number.
- 255 is a repdigit in base 2 (11111111), in base 4 (3333), and in base 16 (FF).
Here’s Q Drop #255: https://qalerts.app/?q=%23255
See you tomorrow, Frens!🤓
Good old 255, one ofy very favorite numbers!
The last of the extended ASCII numbers, "255" represented a NO BREAK SPACE in MS-DOS. This made alt-255 a GREAT way to create "invisible" directories in the file tree. Unfortunately, I used this trick for Evil, not Good.
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