{ "id": "1508.06185", "version": "v1", "published": "2015-08-24T13:13:43.000Z", "updated": "2015-08-24T13:13:43.000Z", "title": "Represent a natural number as the sum of palindromes in various bases", "authors": [ "Yu Gao" ], "comment": "5 pages", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "It is shown that the set of palindromes is an additive basis for the natural numbers in any base. Specifically, we prove that every natural number can be expressed as the sum of $O(d)$ palindromes in base $d$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2015-08-24T13:13:43.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "natural number", "palindromes" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 5, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2015arXiv150806185G" } } }