Polite number
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polite-number-295-3251738
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Polite number
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In number theory, a polite number is a positive integer that can be written as the sum of two or more consecutive positive integers. A positive integer which is not polite is called impolite. The impolite numbers are exactly the powers of two, and the polite numbers are the natural numbers that are not powers of two. Polite numbers have also been called staircase numbers because the Young diagrams which represent graphically the partitions of a polite number into consecutive integers resemble st
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Type of integer in number theory
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polite_number
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2023-12-11T02:02:56Z
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