Perfectism

For me to accept someone's claim that they are perfect, they have to back it up first. I discovered that I, too, am perfect—for the time being. I also discovered that currently, there are only 44 known perfect numbers. The 44th is, uh, slightly large.

wouter@country:~$ LC_ALL=C wget
http://amicable.adsl.dk/aliquot/c1/perfx44.txt
--10:54:31--  http://amicable.adsl.dk/aliquot/c1/perfx44.txt
           => `perfx44.txt'
Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1, ::1
Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 20,107,132 (19M) [text/plain]

Holy sweet smoking mother of Jezus.

(note, though, that the 20M characters include newlines every 80 (or so) characters. The 44th perfect number, which occasionally was discovered this year, has 19616714 digits. That's 19 million 616 thousand 714 digits)