On happy numbers

El-seidy, Essam; Siksek, Samir;

Abstract


The happy function T : N → N is the mapping which sends a natural number to the sum of the squares of its decimal digits. A happy number x is a natural number for which the sequence (Tn(x))n∞=1 eventually reaches 1. Guy asks in [1], problem E34, if there exist sequences of consecutive happy numbers of arbitrary length. In this paper we answer this question affirmatively. © 2000 Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium.


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Title On happy numbers
Authors El-seidy, Essam ; Siksek, Samir
Keywords Digital problems;Happy numbers
Issue Date 1-Jan-2000
Journal Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics 
Volume 30
Issue 2
Start page 565
End page 570
ISSN 00357596
DOI 10.1216/rmjm/1022009281
Scopus ID 2-s2.0-0034347761

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