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Re:A happy numeric coincidence by rdwampler on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @12:31PM (#18807994)
These are called "Reacher numbers."

http://recursed.blogspot.com/2007/09/mathematics-in-jack-rea... Base 10: https://oeis.org/A023106 Base 2: https://oeis.org/A256590

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Re:A happy numeric coincidence by Someone on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @12:58PM (#18808315)
Also: http://oeis.org/A152147 “Irregular triangle in which row n lists k > 0 such that the sum of digits of k^n equals k.”.
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Re:A happy numeric coincidence by pavel_lishin on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @12:36PM (#18808054)
That was a pretty great post, if only for this line:

> Extra credit: explain why nobody cares.

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