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  • Dec 21, 2011, 10:45 PM
    kristina0812
    Select a natural number between 1 to 50. Square the digits and add. Repeat this proce
    Select a natural number between 1 to 50. Square the digits and add. Repeat this process until you see a pattern.
    What other numbers end with one?
    What happen if you do the process to number 37?
    What conclusion can you give?
  • Dec 22, 2011, 07:12 AM
    ebaines
    Interesting. Did you try it with 37? What series do you get? It seems that all starting numbers yield a pattern that either (a) goes to a series of 1's or (b) goes to a series that continuously cycles the same pattern - I'll leave it to you to see what that repeating pattern is, but here's a hint: it starts with 89. I find that there are 11 numbers that end up going to 1. Obviously 1 is one such starting number, and so is 10, but there are 9 others that are less obvious.

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