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MathNet 2026 — Part 08 Question 84

Math Olympiad Vault · MathNet 2026 — Part 08

Question 84

Define the digitlength of a positive integer to be the total number of letters used in spelling its digits. For example, since "two zero one one" has a total of 13 letters, the digitlength of 2011 is 13. We begin at any positive integer and repeatedly take the digitlength. Show that after some number of steps, we must arrive at the number 4.