Английская Википедия:495 (number)
Шаблон:Infobox number 495 (four hundred [and] ninety-five) is the natural number following 494 and preceding 496. It is a pentatope number[1] (and so a binomial coefficient <math> \tbinom {12}4 </math>). The maximal number of pieces that can be obtained by cutting an annulus with 30 cuts.[2]
Kaprekar transformation
The Kaprekar's routine algorithm is defined as follows for three-digit numbers:
- Take any three-digit number, other than repdigits such as 111. Leading zeros are allowed.
- Arrange the digits in descending and then in ascending order to get two three-digit numbers, adding leading zeros if necessary.
- Subtract the smaller number from the bigger number.
- Go back to step 2 and repeat.
Repeating this process will always reach 495 in a few steps. Once 495 is reached, the process stops because 954 – 459 = 495.
Example
For example, choose 495:
- 495
The only three-digit numbers for which this function does not work are repdigits such as 111, which give the answer 0 after a single iteration. All other three-digit numbers work if leading zeros are used to keep the number of digits at 3:
- 211 – 112 = 099
- 990 – 099 = 891 (rather than 99 – 99 = 0)
- 981 – 189 = 792
- 972 – 279 = 693
- 963 – 369 = 594
- 954 − 459 = 495
The number 6174 has the same property for the four-digit numbers, albeit has a much greater percentage of workable numbers.
See also
- Collatz conjecture — sequence of unarranged-digit numbers always ends with the number 1.
References
fr:Nombres 400 à 499#495 ja:400#481 から 499
