{"id":24651,"date":"2016-09-14T22:42:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T21:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=24651"},"modified":"2016-09-14T22:42:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T21:42:22","slug":"259-whats-special-about-the-number-259","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/14\/259-whats-special-about-the-number-259\/","title":{"rendered":"259: What&#8217;s special about the number 259?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty:<\/p>\n<p>259=3\u00b2+5\u00b2+15\u00b2= 3\u00b2+9\u00b2+13\u00b2 so, it can be expressed as the sum of three distinct squares in two different ways.<\/p>\n<p>It can be expressed as the sum of four cubes in two different ways. 259=2\u00b3+2\u00b3+3\u00b3+6\u00b3=1\u00b3+2\u00b3+5\u00b3+<wbr \/>5\u00b3.<\/p>\n<p>It is semi-prime in that it is a number that\u00a0is the product of two distinct primes: 7&#215;37.<\/p>\n<p><em>I have had another busy day and this is the best I could do when it came to writing this evening&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-24651\" data-postid=\"24651\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-24651 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty: 259=3\u00b2+5\u00b2+15\u00b2= 3\u00b2+9\u00b2+13\u00b2 so, it can be expressed as the sum of three distinct squares in two different ways. It can be expressed as the sum of four cubes in two different ways. 259=2\u00b3+2\u00b3+3\u00b3+6\u00b3=1\u00b3+2\u00b3+5\u00b3+5\u00b3. It is semi-prime in that it is a number that\u00a0is the product of two distinct primes: 7&#215;37. I have had another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3355,18],"tags":[3941,553,3942],"class_list":["post-24651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3355","category-maths","tag-3941","tag-busy","tag-number-facts","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-6pB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24652,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24651\/revisions\/24652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}