Talk:Polite number

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"Powers of two are impolite numbers" Should this not be "multiples of two?"

Rationale: if n is an integer, two consecutive integers could be expressed as n, n+1.

n + n + 1 = 2n+1 = any odd integer.

But I didn't want to jump to correcting right away.

64.231.183.253 13:23, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

You are incorrect, because you only proved that the odd numbers are polite, not that even numbers are impolite. For example, 6 = 1 + 2 + 3 is even and polite. Samohyl Jan 17:19, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Oops. Didn't see the 'or more' consecutive integers. Thanks.

137.207.238.106 13:59, 17 August 2007 (UTC)