Apr 20 2009
The Dark Side of Day 420
Super High Me is hilarious, watching this on G4, is making my night. I am in a hotel room, and I’m tired. Infact, I’m dragging, and it’s too easrly to go to bed, but I just might. I wrote about 420 on my blog, then I soaked in the large bathtub in the hotel, and I thtought about the darker side of day 420.
Today is Hitler’s birthday. It really is. I learned that when I looked up how other countries celebrate 420 day.
Also, the Columbine massecare was on 420.
So, when everyone laughs about 420, and I think it’s brilliant, we must remember that there are memorials taking place around the world for the Columbine massacer. It’s actually is a very dark day.
420 is the sum of four consecutive primes (101 + 103 + 107 + 109). 420 is a zero of the Mertens function and is sparsely totient. It is a pronic number, and the smallest number divisible by the numbers 1 to 7, and as a consequence of that it is a Harshad number in every base from 2 to 10 except base 5. It is a 141-gonal number.
420 also refers to a con-artist, trickster in Indian and Pakistan.
420 is the natural number following 419 and preceding 421.
Some of this is taken from Wikipedia. I thought the number trivia was interesting.
