While skimming his phone directory in 1982, Albert Wilansky, a mathematician of Lehigh University, noticed that the telephone number of his brother-in-law H. Smith had the following peculiar property: The sum of the digits of that number was equal to the sum of the digits of the prime factors of that number. Got it? Smith's telephone number was 493-7775. This number can be written as the product of its prime factors in the following way:
4937775= 3*5*5*65837
The sum of all digits of the telephone number is 4+9+3+7+7+7+5= 42,and the sum of the digits of its prime factors is equally 3+5+5+6+5+8+3+7=42. Wilansky was so amazed by his discovery that he named this kind of numbers after his brother-in-law: Smith numbers.
As this observation is also true for every prime number, Wilansky decided later that a (simple and unsophisticated) prime number is not worth bein