#hamming numbers

"The #Babylonians built their entire system around one specific family of numbers — and refused to use anything else. They called them "#regularnumbers." In 1950, Richard Hamming independently arrived at the exact same family while building the first error-correcting codes in #computinghistory. He called them #Hammingnumbers. Same mathematical definition. Same #primefactors. No contact between the two civilizations..."