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@Delano is being modest he probably knows more than me. I'd forgotten what a perfect number was until I looked it up. I was only sbke to coreect him because I'd just did a little research. It also stuck me peole have computer actively looking for the next perfect number. It stuck me because I can't figure out the motivation to do it. Is there is a practical application for discovering the next perfect prime?

This past week I was invited to participate in a book club discussion about Barracoon in St. Thomas. Here is a video of some of our conversation. The people who participated were from Amsterdam, England, Harlem, St. Thomas, Jamaica, St. Kitts, and South Carolina. I think the conversation was very interesting.

Now if Cynique was still around you know you would never have done that. You even "liking" things now. What gives?

Creole is just another word for "spook." Homer could pass for white (only one of his 8 great grand parents was Black). Indeed he was chosen to test the absurdity of the one drop rule for this reason. Most the so xalled white folks in the area, at the time, had some African ancestry. I doubt Homer considered himself "Black." So he does not meet either of definitions if being Black.

Hundreds of years of white privilege. Look what happened to homie you tried to correct the white guy in the parking lot. There are MANY Black people in the south who don't want the gun laws changed either. In 50 years all the gun nuts will be dead and fewer people will gunned down over silly shit.

Nope, not going that road with women and their hair. Not worth it and there are better thing to worry about. Sure I think many women put waaay too much time money and energy into their hair -- some even forsaking the health in doing so -- living with diabetes and hypertension but not a hair out of place.

Women are not a monolith @Delano. If Megyn Kelly disagreed, not only would not care, I would be happy about it.

Oh I did not know that. I have heard her name before. I have never watched Fox News, so I did not know this about her. I'm actually repulsed by the woman -- and I've never met her... White men feel emboldened to harass people then shoot them when those they bother retaliate. People should not be allowed to walk around with guns here -- anywhere. If old white guys were unarmed they'd be far less likely to be shooting people over a stupid parking spot, or for talking in a movie, or playing music too loud and more Black people would be alive.

Pioneer We can't control how other (especially the po-po) define us, but we can define ourselves. So if someone says they are Black, I'm inclined to take them at their word. Pioneer I'm sure you are familiar with Homer Plessy (of Plessy v. Ferguson fame). Does he meet your criteria for Blackness?

Yeah the Blond wig is crazy looking to me, but I'm "woke" so I won't say anything about it. @Delano it is not sexist to point out the sista's magnificent form.

Simmilarly, if a Black person like Carol Channing, Angie Dickenson, Dinah Shore, and others disavow their Blackness by claiming they are white they are not Black. Being "Black" is more than skin color, kinky hair, and full lips Brother.

...don't go there man ;-)

I completely agree.

OK, who is this and what did you do with Pioneer?

If you get a chance watch the video @Pioneer1. It does explain the situation even saying the guy was a local nut and has previously harassed other people over the handicapped spot. I was really Megyn herself that irked me. She just rubs me the wrong way on a visceral level. I don't even like the way she spells her name. She was going on about how "we all get upset" when we see someone who is not handicapped parking in a handicap spot -- I don't -- who does? I could care less, besides not all handicaps are visible.

Attorney Ben Crump has a new Book coming out in October, called, Open Season, so I'm building content about him for the site. I discovered this video as it related to a shooting here in Florida in which a white man shot a young Brother over parking in a space reserved for the handicapped. The Brother was killed. That situation is sickening enough but if you listen to the entire video you'll hear how Megyn segues from the unjustified killing of an unarmed Black man to her dog that recently died. She broke down in tears. I was listening to the video and I was like WFT is going on?! I "disliked" the video and closed the browser tab as I could not stand to listen to Megyn crying about her stupid pooch -- juxtaposed against the reporting of the senseless death of another Black man, I found it sickening.

Del the perfect number, 8,589,869,056, was discovered in the 16th century. It is on the list above I shared from wikipedia. However, I'm impressed that you were able to derive it in your own. I'd encourage you to look into the work that has already heen done on the subject.

Gail said they don't look like each other -- shoot they both look like each other and Thomas Jefferson :-)

Why is Steven A. Smith a coon?

No I don't know any mathematicians, but I can read. Also, you are confusing me. You know prefect number ≠ prime number right? What is this number 131,071? I don't think there are any odd perfect numbers.

Hold up let me look something up, cause it can't be that simple.... from Wikipedia: Rank p Perfect number Digits Year Discoverer 1 2 6 1 4th century B.C.[5] Euclid 2 3 28 2 4th century B.C. Euclid 3 5 496 3 4th century B.C. Euclid 4 7 8128 4 4th century B.C. Euclid 5 13 33550336 8 1456 First seen in a medieval manuscript, Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, CLM 14908, fol. 33[6] 6 17 8589869056 10 1588 Cataldi[1] 7 19 137438691328 12 1588 Cataldi[1] 8 31 2305843008139952128 19 1772 Euler 1+2+3=6 1+2+4+7+14=28 I wouldn't even want to calculate the next perfect number, 496, without a computer. The last perfect number was discovered in December of last year and it is an astronomically large number. So if you show me a number below 9 million that you claim is a perfect number, I would have no way of verifying it, because I'd need to write a program to do it. You would also need to provide the divisors that you used to prove it is correct. Again, I sure someone else would have found them already -- especially if they are as small as you mentioned. They have computers working on finding additional ones as we speak. This site says that all primes up to exponent 83 million have been verified: https://www.mersenne.org/report_milestones/ it also provides a countdown to verifying the ranges of numbers that are not perfect and that range is already absurdly large.

A couple of them? Get out of here! The 1st perfect number is 6. The 15th is shown below. There are maybe 50 or so known perfect numbers. If you found one smaller than the number below, that was not previously know, that is indeed a discovery! What are you gonna do? 541,625,262,843,658,474,126,544,653,743,913,106,140,856,490,539,031,695,784,603,920,818,387,206,994,158,534,859,198,999,921,056,719,921,919,057,390,080,263,646,159,280,013,827,60543974626278890305730344550582702839513947520776904492443149486172943511312628083790493046274068171796046586734872099257219056946554529962991982343103109262424446354778963544148139171981644160558678809214788667732139875666162471455172696430221755428178425481731961195165985555357393778892340514622232450671597919375737282086087821432205222758453755289747625617939517662442631448031344693508520365758479824753602117288040378304860287362125931378999490033667394150374722496698402824080604210869007767039525923,189,466,627,361,521,277,560,353,576,470,795,225,017,385,830,517,102,860,302,123,489,664,785,136,394,992,890,497,329,214,510,750,597,991,145,622,151,989,934,576,498,429,128

Did the personalities of the twins manifest this difference in rising digns?

One does not aways need money ti travel. I had a gracious and generous host and one of my kids works for an airline. I've been to all three places in recent years and have seen zero evidence if this. St. Thomas is about half the size of Brooklyn and I was all over the territory so im pretty confident this is not the case. I don't know. But many of the businesses i visited were run/owned by a variety of people including Europeans. A gas station was pointed out to me as geing owned by a Bkack woman. I wonder how many Black women own gas stations in the U.S. I agree. Can you imagine? These monsters knowingly sold their own children into the hell of slavery! Imagine that mother's anguish on top of the misery she had already endured.