You know that prime number, natural number, Armstrong number but do you know about Friedman number. Well if you don’t know about this magical number then this article for you. Friedman numbers are named after Erich Friedman, a now-retired mathematics professor at Stetson University, located in DeLand, Florida.
What is Friedman number?
According to Wikipedia, A Friedman number is an integer, which represented in a given numeral system, is the result of a non-trivial expression using all its own digits in combination with any of the four basic arithmetic operators (+, −, ×, ÷), additive inverses, parentheses, exponentiation, and concatenation.
In a simple explanation, it is number which can be achieve by applying arithmetic operators with using their own digits with any combination.
Example:
The expressions of the first few Friedman numbers are:
| number | expression | number | expression | number | expression | number | expression |
| 25 | 52 | 127 | 27−1 | 289 | (8+9)2 | 688 | 8×86 |
| 121 | 112 | 128 | 28−1 | 343 | (3+4)3 | 736 | 36+7 |
| 125 | 51+2 | 153 | 3×51 | 347 | 73+4 | 1022 | 210−2 |
| 126 | 6×21 | 216 | 62+1 | 625 | 56−2 | 1024 | (4−2)10 |
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