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A comment on Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance.

Re:Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance by xeyownt on Monday October 23, 2023 @01:47AM (#37982023)
> Likewise, if you start with a positive integer that ends in 6 and repeatedly raise it to the fifth power, you converge digit by digit toward the strange number

> b = ···743740081787109376

No you don't. Trying with 6, 16, 26, any number, you don't converge.

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Re:Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance by LodeOfCode on Monday October 23, 2023 @01:55AM (#37982072)
6^5 ends in ...76

6^25 ends in ...376

6^125 ends in ...9376

6^625 ends in ...09376

and so on

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