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Abstract. Natural numbers from 0 to 11111 are written in terms of 1 to 9 in two different ways. The first one in increasing order of 1
to 9, and the second one in decreasing order. This is done by using the operations of addition, multiplication, subtraction, potentiation,
and division. In both the situations there are no missing numbers, except one, i.e., 10958 in the increasing case.
1. Introduction
arXiv:1302.1479v5 [math.HO] 8 Jan 2014
Author [1, 2, 3] wrote the numbers from 44 to 11111 in terms of 1 to 9 in two different ways, one is in increasing order and
another in decreasing order. Some comments on this work can be seen in [5, 6, 7, 8]. The operations used are only addition,
multiplication, and potentiation. The idea of brackets is also used, i.e., the following operations were used:
From the mathematical point of view, the brackets are understood as composite rule. The operations such as subtraction
and division are also very important. In this work, the operations of subtraction and division are also included. This is done
to find missing numbers not available in the previous versions. This work is done by using the following operations:
In the previous work [3], there were approximately 1250 numbers were missing in both the cases. Here, we have found almost
all the missing numbers from 0 to 11111, except one, i.e., 10958 in the increasing case. These missing numbers having either
subtraction and/or division, and are written in italic forms to identify. Still, there are more operations that can be applied,
such as:
[factorial, decimal, square root, etc.]
By applying these operations, may be one can find the number 10958. This shall be dealt elsewhere.
The mathematical idea behind this work is based on simple combinations. If we have two different positive natural numbers
in a sequence, for example a and b, then we can write,
a + b, a × b, ab and ab
We have only four ways of writing two numbers, for example if we have a = 2 and b = 3, then one can write 2 + 3, 2 × 3,
23 and 23 in the increasing order, and 3 + 2, 3 × 2, 32 and 32 in decreasing order.
Again, let us consider three positive natural numbers, a, b and c with either a < b < c or a > b > c. Following the same
procedure for two numbers, here below are 23 possibilities of writing these three numbers:
a + b + c, ab + c, a + bc, (a + b) × c, a × (b + c), a × b + c, a + b × c, ab × c, a × bc, a × b × c, abc,
c
abc , ab , (ab )c , ab × c, a × bc , (a × b)c , (ab)c , ab + c, a + bc , ab+c , ab×c , and (a + b)c .
c
The expressions (ab )c and ab×c are the same. The expressions abc and ab give very big values except a = 1.
Imagine if these letters increases from 3 to 4, 5, ... to 9, one may have millions of possibilities of writing these 9 letters
either in increasing or in decreasing orders. The above explanation is only for addition, multiplication and brackets. If we
allow more operations, such as subtraction, division, etc., these possibilities increases much more.
From first version to this, there is a gap of approximately one year. During this time, I came across, two historical books,
[9, 10], where these authors specified only the representation of number 100 in different ways including much more opeartions,
such as, factorial, decimal, square root etc.
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Formerly, Professor of Mathematics, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 88.040-900 Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. e-mail: ijtaneja@gmail.com.
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2 CRAZY SEQUENTIAL REPRESENTATION - INDER J. TANEJA
There are 1256 numbers where we have used subtraction and/or division operations. Out of them 611 are in the increasing case and 645 in decreasing
case. The number 10958 is still missing. There are 178 numbers common in both the cases. Division sign is applied to find 8 numbers. These numbers are
9986, 10084, 10121 and 11027 in the increasing case and 9668, 9686, 10802 and 11038 in the decreasing case.
Acknowledgement
The author is thankful to T.J. Eckman, Georgia, United States, email: jeek@jeek.net in finding some difficult representations using computerized script.
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References
[1] TANEJA, I.J., Natural Numbers from 44 to 1000 in terms of Increasing and Decreasing Orders of 1 to 9, http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1479v1.
[2] TANEJA, I.J., Crazy Sequential Representation: Numbers from 44 to 4444 in terms of Increasing and Decreasing Orders of 1 to 9,
http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1479v2.
[3] TANEJA, I.J., Crazy Sequential Representation: Numbers from 1 to 11111 in terms of Increasing and Decreasing Orders of 1 to 9,
http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1479v3.
[4] TANEJA, I.J., More on Crazy Sequential Representation of Natural Numbers with Subtraction, http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1479v4.
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