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weird number
noun
A natural number that is abundant but not semiperfect; one for which the sum of the proper divisors (including 1 but not itself) is greater than the number, but no subset of those divisors sums to the number itself.
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This wasn't exactly the Swimsuit Issue, and nine seemed a weird number, as if the author had left room for one more disaster T.B.D.: perhaps government default, or, if you'd prefer, crushing entitlement obligations.
"When I started going to rural areas, I could see some houses had a weird number on them – not a house number – but I could see that some houses had markings on them from previous research that had been done.
A weird number seem to have ties with Celtic Football Club, a longtime global brand but often cited as the original hipster outsiders, in so far as any institution dreamt up by a Catholic clergyman can be considered "cool".
Seems a weird number.
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You need to check if it all works, if the data set does not contain weird numbers.
The scammer sets up a computer to call thousands of numbers per hour — because for every 99 people who follow their gut and don't call weird numbers, there's 1 person who will.
It's one of those utterly weird numbers where they replace the names of everyone in the musical with the names of people on "Glee".
No. Those aren't the weird numbers that showed up on "Lost" -- they are the times of my contractions when I went into labor with my daughter, four years ago today.
Defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, π is one of the weirder numbers going.
But we're happy he's keeping things fresh and hoping for an all-ages knees-up from this weird sounding number (produced by – but, of course – Clint Eastwood).
My wardrobe tends to be pretty minimalist and monochromatic — black dresses, black sweaters, black boots — so throwing on a pair of zigzag yellow tights, like those at WeLoveColors.com or some polka-dotted or weird checked number (Topshop, Urban Outfitters, and American Apparel are go-to options), helps set an otherwise boring outfit apart.
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