A few days ago I posted a video about the twin prime conjecture, which states that there are infinitely many primes that are two integers apart: 3 and 5, 5 and 7, 11 and 13, 101 and 103, 1607 and 1609…

Well, check this out. Type 8675309 into WolframAlpha and it says: “Jenny’s phone number.” (Har, har, har, we all know that song.)

At the top of the page it says: Assuming “8675309” is a phrase | Use as a number instead.

Click on that link and you’ll see the following interesting facts about 8675309.

8675309 is a prime. 8675309 is a twin prime (8675311 is also prime). 8675309 is the hypotenuse of a (primitive) Pythagorean triple: 86753092 = 24602602+83191412.

That’s so cool! Who knew?!?!

As Tim Quinn points out, the Nova ScienceNOW song is the second song about twin primes. The first was by Tommy Tutone.

[Update: read this follow-up post.]