Shyam Sunder Gupta calls a number
rare if
and
are both squares, where
is the reversal of
.
For example, 621770 is rare because and
.
According to Gupta there are only 84 such numbers up to .
The first rare numbers are
65, 621770, 281089082, 2022652202, 2042832002, 868591084757, 872546974178, 872568754178 more terms
Pictorial representation of remainders (mod 2, 3, ...,11) frequency. For a table of values and more details
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A graph displaying how many rare numbers are multiples of the primes
p from 2 to 71. In black the ideal line 1/
p.