Talk:Untouchable number

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is there any formula to calculate untouchable number? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.51.172.69 (talk • contribs) 04:27, 12 February 2008

So what about an explanation of what is so significant about an untouchable number for non-maths geniuses? I mean really what is the point?? Apart from wasting the time and budgets of maths departments? I mean who really needs to know this? Like it needs to have a sentence like

"Untouchable numbers are used in (insert field of study) for calculating (insert contribution to human knowledge)"

Because obviously it must be important to earn such a cool name... I mean as the article stands right now I am left to imagine that these are the Elliot Nesses of the number world. While lesser numbers are just a number, untouchable stand protecting (number-) order; less susceptible to bribes standing up to mobsters (or at very least their accountants).... but that probably isn't the reason why they are called untouchable. Or was it these numbers that Ghandi was fighting for? The poor, the dejected and downtrodden untouchables? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.27.1.134 (talk • contribs)

This isn't my field and I could be wrong, but I would be quite surprised to learn that these numbers were useful for anything whatsoever. Algebraist 19:37, 17 May 2008 (UTC)