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Unique Properties of 585
- 585 is the sum of the first four powers of 8 (585 = 1 + 8 + 64 + 512)
Common Properties of 585
A positive integer greater than 1 that is not prime is called composite.
Composite numbers are opposite to prime numbers.
The number n is deficient if the sum of all its positive divisors except itself is less than n.
Compare with perfect and abundant numbers.
The number n is evil if it has an even number of 1's in its binary expansion.
Guess what odious numbers are.
A number is odd if it is not divisible by 2.
Numbers that are not odd are even. Compare with another pair -- evil and odious numbers.
A palindrome is a number that reads the same forward or backward.
The next Ulam number is uniquely the sum of two earlier distinct Ulam numbers.
Undulating numbers are numbers of the form abababab... in base 10.
This property is significant starting from 3-digit numbers, so we will not consider numbers below 100.