I can thank Cliff Pickover a tweet for identifying what's special about the number 7658. See Figure 1 which is a screenshot of his tweet.
Figure 1: link |
So 7658 is the largest number with distinct digits that doesn't have any digits in common with its cube.
\(7658^3 = 449103134312\)
Here is a table of all numbers with the property that there are no digits in common (permalink).
number cube
2 8
3 27
7 343
8 512
27 19683
43 79507
47 103823
48 110592
52 140608
53 148877
63 250047
68 314432
92 778688
157 3869893
172 5088448
187 6539203
192 7077888
263 18191447
378 54010152
408 67917312
423 75686967
458 96071912
468 102503232
478 109215352
487 115501303
527 146363183
587 202262003
608 224755712
648 272097792
692 331373888
823 557441767
843 599077107
918 773620632
1457 3092990993
1587 3996969003
1592 4034866688
4657 100999381393
4732 105958111168
5692 184414333888
6058 222324747112
6378 259449922152
7658 449103134312
\(639172^2 = 408540845584\)
What about fourth powers? What is the largest number that, when raised to the fourth power, has no digits in common with the base number? That number turns out to be 2673.
There doesn't appear to be any numbers satisfying the fifth power but 92 is the largest such number when sixth powers are involved:
\(92^6 = 606355001344\)
I'll leave off there. So, in summary, our investigation into what is special about 7658 led us to discover some associated numbers (92, 2673 and 639172) that are the largest possible numbers when powers of 6, 4 and 2 are considered.
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