Another iGoogle Gadget – Today’s 3 special numbers

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Do you know these facts:

• 8 is the largest cube in the Fibonacci sequence.
• 454 is the largest number known that cannot be written as a sum of 7 or fewer cubes.
• 917 is the only positive number known whose 9th power can be written as the sum of ten 9th powers.

I did not know until I stumbled across Erich Friedman’s webpage. This page has a list featuring numbers from 0 to 9999 along with awe-inspiring facts relating to them. Eventhough, some numbers are missing but I am pretty much sure Erich will find some distinct feature for each of them.

As I am learning Google legacy gadgets API these days, a question rose in my mind that why shouldn’t Icreate a widget which will show certain numbers and their specialities? Then I decided to go for it and created the gadget. This gadget displays 3 numbers and their specialities. You will get to see different numbers each day. (You can check this by just changing your system date and reloading the iGoogle page.).

If you want to have a look at the gadget’s source code, its here

Although this widget will be able to show you numbers from 0 to 1100 currently. However, I am working on increasing the count and soon you will be able to view numbers till 9999.

So, add it to your iGoogle from the button below and have fun.

Will like to have your comments on this. And if you have any idea, please tell me.

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