An Explicit Infinite Family of Fifth Powers with No Equal Adjacent Decimal Digits
We study OEIS A050744/A050752, where A050744 records integers \(x\) for which the decimal expansion of \(x^5\) has no pair of equal adjacent digits and A050752 records the corresponding fifth powers. For every integer \(t\ge1\), we consider \[ x_t=\frac{2(10^{54t}-5\cdot10^{27t}+1)}{3}. \] We prove that \(x_t\) is an integer whose decimal expansion consists of \(27t-1\) copies of \(6\), followed by \(27t\) copies of \(3\), and a final digit \(4\), and that \(x_t^5\) has no equal adjacent decimal digits. The proof rewrites a fixed polynomial fifth power modulo \(3^5=243\) and converts the resulting identity into an exact base-\(10^{27}\) block concatenation with no hidden carries or borrows. Consequently, A050744 and A050752 each contain an explicit infinite subfamily.
Authors
- Lien-Hung Su (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4176-1440)
Institutions
- National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology (TW)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-10-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23149843
- Primary Topic
- Analytic Number Theory Research
- Type
- preprint