Bonnie at the Franklin County Dog Shelter - a beautiful terrier/bull mix girl

Bonnie says hi from the Franklin County Dog Shelter.

She is a good girl and needs a home.

A dog sits by a closed door, starting at it.

Her sister is on a walk without her. She has not moved in 15 minutes.

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Family & Honour, an historical fiction mini-graphic-novel For fans of medieval political intrigue with morally grey characters - think Game of Thrones or Rome - minus the dragons & ice zombies.

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I had nothing planned for 183 and no time to find something if we'd gotten there.

The Scattered Futures campaign is FINISHED! And that's a wrap on this truly idiotic diversion. This concludes Ben's dumb number facts.

With only 2 minutes left in the campaign, will we find backer 182?

182 is a greatest hits number, being both oblong (like 156) and nontotient (like 174).

10 minutes left! If you've been waiting to sneak in under the wire for dramatic effect, NOW'S YOUR CHANCE!

If you put 5 points around another in a pentagon, then 10 in a larger pentagon, and keep making bigger pentagons, you'll eventually get 181 points.

You can also get to 181 making increasingly large stars of David.

Thank you for the boost, Michael!

90 minutes left in the Scattered Futures campaign, and backer slot 180 has come available!

Not only does 90 divide into 180, but more numbers divide into 180 than into any number less than 180 (and any number up to 239 until the next highly composite number, 240).

Thank you, Vince!

Just under 4 hours left to secure your copy of Scattered Futures!

A sphere of radius 12 centered on the origin contains 179 points with integer coordinates inside it.

178 is a binary antipalindrome. It read backward in binary is its own opposite!

If you convert 178 to binary (10110010), then swap all the 0s for 1s and 1s for 0s, then you wind up with the same number, but in reverse order!

If you walk a spiral on hexagonal tiles, after completing your 9th loop, you will have walked across 177 tiles.

176 is a pseudoperfect number. Perfect numbers are those (like 6 and 28) whose divisors sum to themselves (or twice themselves if we count the number as its own divisor).

Pseudoperfects have a subset of divisors that sum to them.

If you start with 1 toothpick, then place more such that each new toothpick is perpendicular to existing toothpicks, with an old toothpick's end at its middle, and no overlapping, after 16 rounds of adding toothpicks, you will have 175 toothpicks!

Stepped away for a moment and missed a bunch!

174 is nontotient. Remember how 164 and 165 had the same number of lesser numbers with no common divisors? Well it turns out that NO number has exactly 174 lesser numbers with which it shares no divisors!

Scattered Futures: three short sci-fi comics (32 pages) Three full color science fiction stories of human connection in a harsh and fractured universe.

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Great backer number you CAN have:

173--A Pythagorean, Fermi-Dirac, and balanced prime (so many types of primes!)

Also the number of ways to arrange 4 non-tangential circles in a plane.

Great backer numbers you can't have:
171--not only a palindromic triangle, but also the number of ways to cover a 3x9 grid with 1x1 and 2x2 square tiles.
172--the lazy pizza cutter strikes again! With 1 more cut (for a total of 18), our pizza now has 172 very small pieces.

The cover of Scattered Futures, showing 2 astronauts floating over a planet, their hands nearly touching.

A comic page from "Cycles" in Scattered Futures, illustrated by M3rtyn.

A comic page from "Delivery" in Scattered Futures, illustrated by Jenny Fleming.

A comic page from "Legitimate Salvage" in Scattered Futures, illustrated by Sierra Barnes.

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This is a very good thread and also you should support that Kickstarter okay bye

It takes 170 moves to solve an 8-ringed baguenaudier.

It is also, as we are currently just $5 away from unlocking our next stretch goal, the number of backers needed to do just that.

169 is 13^2, which means that it is also the sum of the first 13 odd numbers.

This is genuinely one of my two favorite math facts of all time. Any square number n^2 can also be written as the sum of the first n odd numbers.