repdigit
nounUS, UK /ˈɹɛpˌdɪd͡ʒɪt/
Etymology Blend of rep(eated) + digit.
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A number composed only of one or more occurrences of one specific digit and no other digit.
Recreational mathematics
- Repdigit Triangular Numbers [article title]1975, David W. Ballew, Ronald C. Weger, “Repdigit Triangular Numbers”, in Journal of Recreational Mathematics, volume 8, number 2, Farmingdale, N.Y.: Baywood Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 96–98:
- Is there any system of notation in which there is a repdigit aa such that (aa)²#61;ccdd, with c#61;a-1 and d#61;c-1?1980 January, Murray S[eymour] Klamkin, quoting Charles W. Trigg, “The Olympiad Corner: 11”, in Crux Mathematicorum, volume 6, number 1, Ottawa, Ont.: Canadian Mathematical Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:
2 more examples
- Here is another palindromic magic square that has the added property of having main diagonals containing eight repeating "repdigits": 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888, and 999. The magic sum is 2442.2002, Clifford A[lan] Pickover, “Gallery I: Squares, Cubes, and Tesseracts”, in The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions, Princeton, N.J.; Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 284:
- A positive with repeated digit is called a repdigit, for example 222, 55555, and all repunits are repdigits.2005, James J[oseph] Tattersall, “Modular Arithmetic”, in Elementary Number Theory in Nine Chapters, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, section 5.6 (Supplementary Exercises), paragraph 14, page 193:
- Related terms
- repeating decimal, repetend
- Hyponyms
- repunit