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Explain Plato's affinity (Posted on 2018-05-15)

Plato set 5040 as the ideal number of citizens in a city.

What so special about this number?

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Nice work, Ady and Larry! I didn't know of this interesting fact about the great philosopher.

See http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PlatosNumbers.html

Posted by JayDeeKay on 2018-05-17 12:21:33

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