Oscar_Cunningham comments on Open Thread: July 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 02 July 2010 02:45:33PM 3 points [-]

How does 2212221 represent perfect numbers?

Comment author: apophenia 02 July 2010 11:21:10PM 1 point [-]

It's not meant to be realistic, but in this specific case: 6 = 110, 28=1110 in binary. Add one to each digit.

Comment author: Sniffnoy 02 July 2010 11:36:44PM 1 point [-]

Except 28 is 11100 in binary...

Comment author: apophenia 03 July 2010 10:25:54PM 0 points [-]

My mistake. I was reverse engineering. I still think that's it, just that the sequence hasn't finished printing.