The slavering fangs of vampirism seem to have plunged so deep into the thyrocervical trunk it's about to snap off math's Poindexter head like a Pez dispenser full of hemogloblin.
Yesterday, we learned that vampires are the imaginary numbers of literature, which seems to contradict a certain smug know-it-all's assertion that vampires are mathematically impossible. And here's the figureless mirror held up in front of Dracula that proves once and all vampires are as real as numbers: vampires are so feared in the world of mathematics that they have their own set of numbers named after them.
A vampire number is a number is a number which can be written as "fangs" — two numbers that, when multiplied, equal the product and contain the same digits. There's varieties of vampire numbers too: true vampire numbers have fangs with the same number of digits as the original number, with no number ending in zero. For example: 1827 = 21 * 87
In other words, Professor Costas Efthimiou? Dracula says you can fucking suck him. Vampires aren't only real, they are mathematical fact. Remember, kids: your abacus can be easily snapped in two for a couple of makeshift stakes.
Vampire Numbers [Jens Kruse Andersen]
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