153 - A Narcissistic Number

153 is a narcissistic number–a number that can be generated from its own digits (so it’s obsessed with itself? hence the narcissism?) like so:

More precisely, a narcissistic number is a natural number that is the sum of its own digits each raised to the power of the number of digits. So since 153 has 3 digits, each digit is cubed and then summed together. There are only four 3-digit narcissistic numbers:

A very interesting thing about narcissistic numbers is that, unlike may other sets of numbers (e.g., even/odd numbers, prime numbers, triangular numbers, etc.), there are only finitely many of them. In base 10, there are only 88 (10 of them being the 1 digit numbers). The largest narcissistic number has 39 digits, this guy:

115,132,219,018,763,992,565,095,597,973,971,522,401

Why is this? Essentially, the sum cannot keep up with the size of the number. More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_number

Catholic Aesthetics

Irish Catholic: Green vestments, Celtic crosses, St Patrick, Old stone monastery's, Friars

Mexican Catholic: Our Lady of Guadeloupe, rosaries, Spanish bibles, baptisms

Roman Catholic: Gold chalices, Nuns, Sistine Chapel, Swiss Gaurds, Latin Masses

Polish Catholic: Priests in black, St Faustina, Divine Mercy Paintings, Confessionals

Eastern Catholic: Icons, stained windows, cool hats

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Carmelite altar featuring the Flowers of Carmel:

The Infant of Prague

The Blessed Virgin of Carmel and St. Joseph

Sts. Teresa of Jesus and John of the Cross

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I thought this was really interesting.. the subtle shift weak gravitational lensing has on the path of light!

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Big beautiful spiral galaxy M101

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Me: Sometimes I just feel frustrated and wonder if I am wasting my time.

Ben: St. Paul had to write two letters to the Corinthians.

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just saw bindi irwin got engaged and apparently her fiance is american. she’s 21 and they’ve been dating for 6 years. I wonder if his family lives in aus/works in conservation because imagine just being a random 15-year-old tourist at the zoo and having a meet cute with steve irwin’s daughter lol

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