OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
The first nineteen terms are palindromes (cf. A002113). There are exactly seven different families of integers which together partition the terms of this sequence. See the file "Sequences and families" for more details, comments, formulas and examples.
From Chai Wah Wu, Feb 18 2019: (Start)
If w is a term with decimal representation a, then the number n corresponding to the string axa is also a term, where x is a string of k repeated digits 0 where k >= 0. The number n = w*10^(k+m)+w = w*(10^(k+m)+1) where m is the number of digits of w. Then R(n) = R(w)*10^(k+m)+R(w) = R(w)(10^(k+m)+1). Then n*R(n) = w*R(w)(10^(k+m)+1)^2 which is a square since w is a term.
The same argument shows that numbers corresponding to axaxa, axaxaxa, ... are also terms.
For example, since 528 is a term, so are 528528, 5280528, 52800528, 5280052800528, etc.
(End)
REFERENCES
C. Stanley Ogilvy and John T. Anderson, Excursions in Number Theory, Oxford University Press, NY. (1966), pp. 88-89.
David Wells, The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers, Penguin Books, Revised edition (1997), p. 168.
LINKS
Robert Israel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
Bernard Schott, Sequences and Families
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Reversal
EXAMPLE
One example for each family:
family 1 is A002113: 323 * 323 = 323^2;
family 2 is A035090: 169 * 961 = 13^2 * 31^2 = 403^2;
family 3 is A082994: 288 * 882 = (2*144) * (2*441) = 504^2;
family 4 is A002113(j) * 100^k: 75700 * 757 = 7570^2;
family 5 is A035090(j) * 100^k: 44100 * 144 = 2520^2;
family 6 is A082994(j) * 100^k: 8670000 * 768 = 81600^2;
family 7 is A323061(j) * 10^(2k+1): 5476580 * 856745 = 2166110^2.
MAPLE
revdigs:= proc(n) local L, i;
L:= convert(n, base, 10);
add(L[-i]*10^(i-1), i=1..nops(L))
end proc:
filter:= n -> issqr(n*revdigs(n)):
select(filter, [$0..1000]); # Robert Israel, Feb 09 2019
MATHEMATICA
Select[Range[0, 535], IntegerQ@ Sqrt[# IntegerReverse@ #] &] (* Michael De Vlieger, Feb 03 2019 *)
PROG
(PARI) isok(n) = issquare(n*fromdigits(Vecrev(digits(n)))); \\ Michel Marcus, Feb 04 2019
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,base
AUTHOR
Bernard Schott, Feb 02 2019
STATUS
approved