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Perfect Powers with Few Ternary Digits

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Published/Copyright: November 30, 2012
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Abstract.

We classify all integer squares (and, more generally, q-th powers for certain values of q) whose ternary expansions contain at most three digits. Our results follow from Padé approximants to the binomial function, considered 3-adically.

Received: 2011-07-20
Accepted: 2012-03-22
Published Online: 2012-11-30
Published in Print: 2012-12-01

© 2012 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston

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