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220 and 284 are amicable numbers, so there factors add up to each other. 220 and 284 are often associated with relationships and love. The factors of 220 and 284 add up of each other.

Perfect numbers are numbers whose factors add up to itself (so perfect numbers are amicable to themselves).

Narcissistic numbers is a number with n digits and when you take each digit in the number, it will add up to itself.

I think perfect numbers should be called narcissistic numbers since they are amicable to themselves and amicable numbers are associated with love, ergo perfect numbers should be called narcissistic.

I've always been fond of 22/7 as a fractional form of pi, but 355/113, is more accurate. For e a similar accuracy can be found with 2721/1001 and I found this landing on an article giving python code which can be generalized for other irrational numbers. So, I'm pretty fond of 355/113 being the number that led me to this.
http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/01/3 ... ions-to-e/

Let us restrict the domain to the positive integers. I say there are no uninteresting positive integers. For suppose there were. Then the set of un-interesting positive integers much have a least element. However being the smallest uninteresting integer is interesting. Q.E.D.

How do people find these properties? Do they just start calculating away and stumble across them? Is there a method? Do computer algorithms do all the work? Just curious, so feel free to tell me this isn't the place for my question

Yes.

Math is discovered and the discoveries are defined by previous axioms or definitions. Verification is the only requirement.

The methods of discovery, definition and verification vary greatly by circumstance and era.

Godel numbers. They can be used to transform almost anything into a single number. Not only that, these things, which are encoded into a Godel number, can be retrieved back to their original form.
The whole process is called Godel's encoding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_numbering

3435 is a very unique number

1089.

Take a three-digit number that is not a palindrome, reverse the digits, and subtract the smaller number from the bigger one. Then reverse the digits of the result and add those. You will always get 1089.

LOL that is certainly true, so I wanted to see an example of how this might work. Here's a simple description of pattern discovery from Math Dude:
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/educat ... ns-numbers
Pretty cool to see, for someone who is uninitiated.

Come on though, 3435 for the win.

Well it may be, but it's hardly any fun if you don't explain why. I could just randomly google various numbers. Well that does sound a little fun but it's certainly not in the spirit of the thread.

Take each number and raise it to the power of itself and add them together and you get 3435. No other number really has this property (1 doesn't count).
No need to attack me.