Jimmy's Perfect Number...(JE #2)

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Four rows of seven symbols 

could have been

Two rows of fourteen symbols 

or

One row of twenty-eight
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It is anybody's goose what the symbols 

mean individually but

the fact is there are 

TWENTY-EIGHT

of them.
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Another fact:

I am the GoFather of Math

and I play with numbers. 
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       1 x 28  =   2 x 14 =   7 x 4 

The PROPER DIVISORS of 28–

from smallest to largest

are the numbers 

1, 2, 4, 7, 14

and

1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 = 28
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When all the  Proper Divisors  of a number

add up to that number

what you get is called 

A PERFECT NUMBER.   

The only Perfect numbers 
less than one million are 
6, 28, 496, and 8192

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Jimmy Ernst  is the artist 

whose oil painting appears 

at the top of this page. 

His father is Surrealist artist,  Max Ernst.

  

His mother is the art historian,  Louise Straus-Ernst. 

Jimmy Ernst
(1920-1984)

Jimmy's next page is  here.

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