Digit reversal without apology

DOI10.1080/0025570X.2007.11953467MaRDI QIDQ3103478zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lara Pudwell

Publication date 7 December 2011

Published in Mathematics Magazine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511366

zbMATH Keywords

1089-problemreversible integers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Radix representation; digital problems (11A63) Number theory (educational aspects) (97F60)

Abstract: In 1966, Alan Sutcliffe published an introductory paper on "numbers which are multiplied when their digits are reversed". Two years later T. J. Kaczynski extended Sutcliffe's work to show that there exists a 3 digit number in base n with this property if and only if there exists a 2 digit base n number with this property. This paper attempts to generalize Kaczynski's proof to the case of 4 and 5 digit integers and explores some unexpected consequences of this generalization.

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