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Unique Properties of 196

  • According to conjecture, 196 is the lowest Lychrel number, that is the lowest number which is not known to produce a palindrome by repeated reversal and addition. The algorithm has been tested to more than 246 million digits without finding a palindrome, but no one has ever proven that it will never produce one
  • 196 is the smallest square that contains a multidigit prime number as a substring
  • 196 is the smallest perfect power which is not coprime to the sum of its divisors
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Rare Properties of 196

Square

Common Properties of 196

Abundant
Composite
Even
Odious
Powerful
Practical