PERFECT NUMBERS WITH IDENTICAL DIGITS IN NEGATIVE BASE

Abstract

We study perfect numbers which are repdigits in a given negative

base. It is shown that in each negative base there are at most nitely many

perfect repdigits, and that the set of all such numbers can eectively be computed.

As an illustration we explicitly determine these numbers in bases -2

and -10.

Keywords

• Perfect number,repdigit

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