Interestingness score

How we rank numbers on NumDic

How it’s calculated

Each number gets a score from the properties shown on its page (number-theory characteristics and base-10 digit properties):

  • Base: +1 point for every property chip (e.g. Prime, Triangular, Palindromic).
  • Bonus (rare): +3 for very special properties: Mersenne, Mersenne prime, Fermat number, Catalan number, Dudeney number, Perfect, Narcissistic.
  • Bonus (medium): +2 for other notable ones: Sophie Germain prime, Safe prime, Layland, Factorial, Pandigital, Strobogrammatic, Refactorable, Powerful number, Lucas number, Gaussian prime, Kaprekar, Smith, Automorphic, Trimorphic, Hoax number, Zuckerman number.

The total is the interestingness score. Higher means more properties and/or rarer ones. On each number page you also see how many chips are in each section.

Example

Number 6 has a score of 31.

It has the following properties (each contributing base points and possibly bonus):

Triangular, Hexagonal, Evil number, Pronic, Factorial, Even, Ones-Zeroes, Palindromic, Harshad, Repdigit, Automorphic, Spy number, Narcissistic, Trimorphic, Zuckerman number, Composite, Perfect

Plus the usual classification (Prime/Unit/Composite) and, when applicable, Perfect/Abundant/Deficient and Twin Prime.

Top 1000 most interesting numbers

Precomputed list; same order as on number pages (by score, then by number). Paginated 50 per page.

Rank Number Score
951 868 6
952 899 6
953 902 6
954 905 6
955 908 6
956 920 6
957 921 6
958 923 6
959 925 6
960 929 6
961 930 6
962 931 6
963 932 6
964 935 6
965 937 6
966 939 6
967 949 6
968 959 6
969 964 6
970 973 6
971 976 6
972 979 6
973 980 6
974 987 6
975 1002 6
976 1004 6
977 1005 6
978 1007 6
979 1010 6
980 1014 6
981 1022 6
982 1025 6
983 1026 6
984 1027 6
985 1028 6
986 1030 6
987 1036 6
988 1037 6
989 1041 6
990 1043 6
991 1047 6
992 1050 6
993 1052 6
994 1055 6
995 1057 6
996 1059 6
997 1060 6
998 1062 6
999 1064 6
1000 1065 6