- The Babylonians, they chose as the base of their calculations numbers like 12,60,360 . It appears that these belong to seven numbers with a special property concerning divisibility .
- Consider the natural numbers 1,2,..
- Definition. An "antiprime number" is a number that has
more dividers than all its predecessors .
- Definition. A "neobabylonic number" is an (antiprime)number
such that the next bigger antiprime number is (at least) twice as big .
- Theorem. There are exactly seven neobabylonic numbers, being:
1 2 6 12 60 360 2520 .
- The proof can be given without knowledge of number theory .
- Theorem. If R is the field of real numbers , and if i*i=-1 ,
then R(i) is algebraically closed .
- The little article has appeared in Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde (3) ,
XIV , page 95-96 (1966)
- The same proof has appeared independently as an exercise
in a book of E. Artin "Algebra" in 1965 .
- Theorem. If n > 0 and A and B are R.E.T.'s
then nA > nB is equivalent to A > B .
- It it proved here only using conventional proof-methods ,
and obtained during a seminar of prof B. van Rootselaar at Amsterdam .
- It appeared in Indagationes Mathematicae Amsterdam , 29 , no 1
(1967) 8 pp
- It has also been proved by A. Nerode using the
priority method , to appear in Mathematische Annalen 1966 .
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