In Mathematics
There are 147 one-sided 6-polyhexes.
The digits forming 147 also form the left-hand column of a normal decimal numeric keypad.
The binary form of 147 is contains all the two-digit binary numbers (00, 01, 10 and 11) in a sequence.
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