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Does the set of happy numbers have a limiting density?
A positive integer $n$ is said to be happy if the sequence
$$n, s(n), s(s(n)), s(s(s(n))), \ldots$$
eventually reaches 1, where $s(n)$ denotes the sum of the squared digits of $n$.
For example, 7 is ...
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Existence of an explosive prime
The motivation to introduce explosive prime is Carmichael's totient conjecture (see why below).
Let $\mathbb{N}_{SF}$ be the set of positive square-free integers. Consider the map $f:\mathbb{N}_{SF} \...
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Math videos featuring interesting data animations
I am looking for interesting videos featuring pure data animations (not someone talking about math, but a video featuring some math phenomenon). I am interested in videos that tell a story, rather ...
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Multiplicative Persistence - Highest persistence found? [closed]
tried to ask on the math reddit but got deleted due to my account being new.
Is the record for highest multiplicative persistence found still 11? As I may have just found a number with persistence of ...