Dear Producer,This is the nerdiest thing I have ever put into the newsletter.As the show donations start to drift downward this time of year, you have a good chance to become an
Executive Producer with little competition
tomorrow.
I was
thinking to myself what is the
weirdest number that would make a reasonable contribution easy and likely to bolster
tomorrow’s show?
What would get people who have never
donated to consider starting now?
I took the easy route and
looked into the book of knowledge to find, literally, the world’s weirdest number. Maybe it would be a great thematic donation for the rest of the year.
WEIRDEST NUMBERAfter all, it is weird in itself that your
No Agenda Show exists within today’s
tightly controlled media landscape, yes?
So here it is. 70. It’s already weird. And it is very nerdy and should appeal to every dude and dudette named
Ben. Here is the explanation from
this page.“In number theory, a weird number is a natural number that is abundant but not semiperfect. In other words, the sum of the proper divisors (divisors including 1 but not itself) of the number is greater than the number, but no subset of those divisors sums to the number itself.”70“The smallest weird number is 70. Its proper divisors are 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, and 35; these sum to 74, but no subset of these sums to 70. The number 12, for example, is abundant but not weird, because the proper divisors of 12 are 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, which sum to 16; but 2+4+6 = 12.”So
this week’s weird donation to celebrate your
No Agenda show is 70.
Click hereHopefully this will
save the show. And it will answer the question as to how many
uber-geeks and number freaks are in the audience. Otherwise consider contributing your own weird amount by clicking
here.
