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Infinite sets of $b$-additive and $b$-multiplicative Ramanujan-Hardy numbers

Number Theory 2019-08-02 v1

Abstract

Let bb be a numeration base. A bb-additive Ramanujan-Hardy number NN is an integer for which there exists at least an integer MM, called additive multiplier, such that the product of MM and the sum of base bb digits of NN, added to the reversal of the product, gives NN. We show that for any bb there exists an infinity of bb-additive Ramanujan-Hardy numbers and an infinity of additive multipliers. A bb-multiplicative Ramanujan-Hardy number NN is an integer for which there exists at least an integer MM, called multiplicative multiplier, such that the product of MM and the sum of base bb digits of NN, multiplied by the reversal of the product, gives NN. We show that for an even bb, b1(mod3)b\equiv 1 \pmod {3}, and for b=2b=2, there exists an infinity of bb-multiplicative Ramanujan-Hardy numbers and an infinity of multiplicative multipliers. These results completely answer two questions and partially answer two other questions among those asked in V. Ni\c{t}ic\u{a}, \emph{About some relatives of the taxicab number}, arXiv:1805.10739v4.

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@article{arxiv.1811.10035,
  title  = {Infinite sets of $b$-additive and $b$-multiplicative Ramanujan-Hardy numbers},
  author = {Viorel Nitica},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.10035},
  year   = {2019}
}