I had never heard of happy numbers before. A happy number is a number where if you add the squares of the digits (in the case of 28 – 22+82) and then do the same with the resulting sum, you eventually get to 1. Sad numbers never get to 1. I’m not sure why they decided that made the number happy. Twenty-eight is also a perfect number. Does that make it perfectly happy?
But in the spirit of things, here are 28 things that make me happy.
- Brett
- chocolate orange sticks from the candy counter at BYU
- arriving safely home (although it was a 2 hour delay for a 1.5 hour flight)
- family
- warm coats
- snow!
- Christmas lights!
- spending the weekend with family
- only a week and a half left of the semester (SOOO ready for it to be over)
- having Christmas 75% completed already
- getting to put up the Christmas decorations this week
- no invasive procedures at the airport
- blow kisses
- warm beds
- good books
- finishing races, and Brett running his first
- knitting and sewing
- Tucanos
- arm length pictures
- warm quilts
- laughing
- the moon
- new highlighters
- getting Toy Story 3 (our only true “Black Friday” shopping)
- elephants
- foot rubs
- cows
- tacos and Chuck tomorrow night
I am an educator and PhD. I quilt, belly dance, run, read, and try to grow things. I am a Mormon. I am infertile. I am a daughter, sister, aunt, grand-daughter, friend, wife, and mom.
Brett L. Dennis
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AmandaStretch
Google Reader on my iPad mangled your post, so I couldn’t figure out what you were talking about–It looked like you were saying I should add 22 and 82, which confused me until I realized that Google Reader on my iPad wasn’t superscripting the two twos.
So 4 + 64 = 68
36 + 64 = 100
1 + 0 + 0 = 1
Neat.
So thank you. And for your efforts, I’m leaving you with the smallest Pandigital Palindromic happy number:
1034567892987654301
The superscript is a new thing with this theme. It’s pretty neat, but I imagine there are other codes like that that not every reader will pick up.
Sad numbers ultimately fall into an endless loop. Numbers are just so fascinating. Pandigital is a new term for me too. That is quite the number you found there. 🙂
(There really are two links in the above comment. I just forgot to put a space between them)
The great admin in the server finds it now problem to help put in runaway spaces. 😉