Digit Powers

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There are a certain group of numbers, such that if you take the sum of each digit raised to the k k th power, where k k is the number of digits in the number, you will get the original number. In other words, they are numbers that are equal to the sum of the digits raised to the power of the number of digits. For example, 153 1 3 + 5 3 + 3 3 = 153 153 \rightarrow 1^{3} + 5^{3} + 3^{3} = 153 . All single digit positive integers have this property, but no two digit numbers do. There are only four three digit numbers that work: 153 153 , 370 370 , 371 371 , and ? ? . Find the fourth.


The answer is 407.

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Joshua Lowrance
Nov 26, 2018

This type of number is called a PPDI (plu-perfect digital invariant) or a narcissistic number. View this OEIS page for more on this sequence.

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