mcnugget number
McNugget number (from MathWorld):
A number which can be obtained by adding together orders of McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets (prior to consuming any), which originally came in boxes of 6, 9, and 20. All integers are McNugget numbers except 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 22, 23, 25, 28, 31, 34, 37, and 43. Since the Happy Meal-sized nugget box (4 to a box) can now be purchased separately, the modern McNugget numbers are linear combinations of 4, 6, 9, and 20. These new-fangled numbers are much less interesting than before, with only 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 11 remaining as non-McNugget numbers.
Oh my. I don’t quite know what to say.
February 20th, 2005 at 5:54 pm
McNugget Numbers
A number which can be obtained by adding together orders of McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets (prior to consuming any), which originally came in boxes of 6, 9, and 20. All integers are McNugget numbers except 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 1…
February 21st, 2005 at 3:45 am
Whoa. I ended up thinking about this for way too long. O_O
February 21st, 2005 at 7:40 pm
On a serious note, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Bra.html
February 22nd, 2005 at 8:40 am
You can do this with anything, or course. McNuggets are just ridiculous enough to get attention. :)
June 7th, 2005 at 3:00 pm
Not that it matters but the list of McNugget base numbers is missing the truly frightening 50 nugget bucket.