The Counting Game

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

The irresistible need for milk!

331Alexander the Great defeats the Persians in the battle of Gaugamela, the third and last battle between them.

[damo666]

332 bc

The founding of the city of Alexandria

[dargorygel]

33.3
The Speed of Ancient Things Called, "Records." They Were Grand.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

33.3
The Speed of Ancient Things Called, "Records." They Were Grand.

Only old men like us remember those things!

Darius III gathers the Persian satraps for a war council at Zeleia, Memnon argues that it is preferable for the Persians to avoid a pitched battle and adopt a scorched earth tactic. Arsites, the satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia, will not allow his land to be burned and agrees with other satraps to reject this cautious advice. If only they had heeded his advice...

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

I forgot the yea!

334 BC

[dargorygel]

335 Days ago, the Iraqi city of Babylon was declared a UNESCO world heritage site.

[Wintogreen]

336, a harshad number, meaning that it is divisible by the sum of it's digits.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

337 Constantine the Great dies and the Empire has divided again, this time to three parts one for each of his sons. By 350 Constantius will be the only one to rule.

[Bonatogether]

338 BC, Phillip II (Alexander's father) at the Battle of Chaeronea beats the Athenians and Thebans.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

339 ΑD Persian and Byzantine warfare restarts. It is made only from skirmishes and border raids without any major battles. This will go on for over a decade.

[damo666]

440 the sum of k^n for n = 1 to k where k = 2^2

[damo666]

441 the sum of k^n for n = 0 to k where k = 2^2

Also 21 squared

[damo666]

440 the sum of k^n for n = 1 to k where k = 2^2

Whoops 340 not 440

[damo666]

441 the sum of k^n for n = 0 to k where k = 2^2

Also 21 squared

Another whoops 341 not 441 (except ofc 21^2 is 441)

[dargorygel]

So now what do we do? Go back and count Damo's mistakes as still counting? Oh the humanity! Oh the agony!

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

Oh, the irony!
Let's count them as 340 and 341.

342 BC Philip of Macedonia calls the most celebrated philosopher of his time (for many the greater philosopher ever) Aristotle to educate his son Alexander (the later Great). One day Alexander will say: To my father, I owe the living but to my teacher the good living!

[damo666]

343 7^3 The lowest cube Friedman number and the lowest composite 'nice' Friedman number (3+4)^3

[damo666]

344 the lowest composite refactorable octohedral number.

It's the 8th octohedral number which is gr8.

[RoganJosh]

61. Better late than never.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

St. Symeon bishop in Persia is executed along with hundreds of other Christians as Persian King Saphur the II starts a new purge against Christians (going along with his warfare against the Byzantine Empire)