Every natural number is the sum of forty-nine palindromes

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Authors William D. Banks

Publication date 28 October 2016

Published in Integers (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04721, http://www.emis.de/journals/INTEGERS/papers/q3/q3.Abstract.html

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zbMATH Keywords

representation of integerssums of palindromes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Radix representation; digital problems (11A63)

Abstract: It is shown that the set of decimal palindromes is an additive basis for the natural numbers. Specifically, we prove that every natural number can be expressed as the sum of forty-nine (possibly zero) decimal palindromes.

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