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Every natural number is the sum of forty-nine palindromes

William D. Banks

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Abstract

It is shown that the set of decimal palindromes is an additive basis for the natural numbers. Specifically, we prove that every natural number can be expressed as the sum of forty-nine (possibly zero) decimal palindromes.

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