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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

The Heegner Numbers. These are the n such that ℚ[√-n] has unique factorisation. There are exactly 9 of them:

1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 19, 43, 67, 163.

A famous fact about them is that 163 being a Heegner Number leads to e^(π√163) being very close to a whole number.

262537412640768743.99999999999925…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are tons of them! For example, the class of numbers n such that there is a Platonic solid made of n-gons. This class only has the numbers 3, 4, and 5. You can get other examples any time there is an interesting mathematical structure with only finitely many examples.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, yes, obviously. I was hoping for something number-theoretic, though. Let me reword the title.