Show that there are at least 3 and at most 4 powers of with digits. For which are there ?
Solution
Take to be the smallest integer such that . Then , so . So , and all have digits. Thus there are at least powers of with digits.
(otherwise ). Hence , so has more than digits. Thus there are at most powers of with digits.
There are if there is an integer between and .
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