I love eating spagetti and meatballs particularly when there's lots of tomato sauce!
Awesome! What is the perfect number of meatballs in your spaghetti?
number is a number that is half the sum of all of its positive divisors including itself i.e. "σ"("n") = 2"n". For instance, 28 is perfect as 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 + 28 = 56 = 2 × 28.
This definition is ancient, appearing as early as Euclid's Elements (VII.22) where it is called ("perfect", "ideal", or "complete number"). Euclid also proved a formation rule (IX.36) whereby formula_1
Spaghetti with meatballs
Spaghetti and meatballs or spaghetti with meatballs is an Italian-American dish consisting of spaghetti, tomato sauce and meatballs.
History.
It is widely believed that spaghetti and meatballs was an innovation of early 20th-century Italian immigrants in New York City. The National Pasta Association (originally named the National Macaroni Manufacturers Association) is said to be the first organization to publish a recipe for it, in the 1920s.
Italian writers and chefs often mock the dish as pseudo-Italian or non-