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Narcissistic / Armstrong

Numbers equal to the sum of their digits each raised to the power of the digit count (153 = 1³ + 5³ + 3³).

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A narcissistic number (also called an Armstrong number or plus-perfect number) equals the sum of its own digits each raised to the power of the digit count.

The canonical example is 153: it has 3 digits, and \(1^3 + 5^3 + 3^3 = 1 + 125 + 27 = 153\).

The narcissistic numbers in base 10: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 153, 370, 371, 407, 1634, 8208, 9474, 54748, 92727, 93084, …

There are only 88 narcissistic numbers in base 10 — proven by D. Winter in 1985. The largest has 39 digits. Beyond that, no \(n\)-digit number can equal the sum of \(n\)-th powers of its digits because the maximum possible sum grows too slowly.

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