how in hell am i getting this crap? could you be so kind as to tell me what it is coming through, so i can avoid it? tnx. On Tue, 17 Sep 1996 16:43:01 -0700 Scott Dattalo writes: >Andrew Warren wrote: >> >> Ok... Here's a followup question: >> >> Martians have fifteen fingers, so 374 is a perfect square. >> >> 231 is a perfect number both on Mars and Venus, even though >Venusians >> don't have the same number of fingers as Martians. How many fingers >> do Venusians have? >> > >Is this a psychology question from Dr. John Gray? If so, the answer >is as many as they want... > >On a less serious note, > >231 base 15 = 496 base 10 > >496 is a perfect number because its base 10 factors are: > >1 2 4 8 16 31 62 124 248 > >which when summed produce 496. However, 496 base 10 can be represented >in any number system. So the answer still is "as many as they want". > >Scott >