{"id":1321,"date":"2006-08-18T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2006-08-18T07:47:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T02:47:00","slug":"birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/primes.utm.edu\/assets\/31tall.gif\" ismap align=left>Today, I celebrate the (binary)11111th anniversary of my birth.  That makes me 31 years old.  That&#8217;s 2<sup>5<\/sup>-1.  The next one like this is (dec)63, and I most likely won&#8217;t see the one after that.  31 is a prime number, and one whose digits sum to a square (2<sup>2<\/sup>)<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/primes.utm.edu\/curios\/page.php?short=31\">prime curios<\/a> page, we also find the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>31 is close to <img src=\"http:\/\/primes.utm.edu\/gifs\/pi.gif\"><sup>3<\/sup>\n<li>31 is the third Mersenne prime.\n<li>Buddha preached on the 31 levels of existence in our universe.\n<li>31, 331, 3331, 33331, 333331, 3333331, 33333331 are primes\n<li>Lance Armstrong, in 2003 (at the age of 31), became the 2nd person ever to win the Tour De France 5 times consecutively, beating the runner-up Jan Ullrich by 61 seconds. Note that 2, 5, 31, 61, and 2003 are all prime numbers.\n<\/ul>\n<p>W00t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I celebrate the (binary)11111th anniversary of my birth. That makes me 31 years old. That&#8217;s 25-1. The next one like this is (dec)63, and I most likely won&#8217;t see the one after that. 31 is a prime number, and one whose digits sum to a square (22)<\/p>\n<p>From the prime curios page, we also <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1321\">Birthday<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}