Kayla is a great addition to she podcast, she is sharp and fits right in. Looking forward to learning more math from this show! #40hpw
Perfect Number Day and the Road to Schnorr
By Brian HIrschfield and Rob Hamilton
Aired Jun 29, 2026 · 1h 10m · Last boosted Jul 5, 2026
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We celebrated June 28 as “Perfect Number Day” and finally told one of my favorite origin stories behind this whole project: a late-night drive home from a Phish show with Kayla, where a quick conversation about why 6 and 28 are perfect numbers turned into a full-blown family math obsession. We revisited how that curiosity led us to trial-and-error the next perfect number, fire up a Raspberry Pi, write Python code, hit the limits of the machine, and eventually discover just how deep number theory goes—from the Pythagoreans to Euclid, Mersenne primes, and the still-open questions around perfect numbers. From t...
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