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It is not difficult to see that there can be but a finite number of PPDIs for
any given base. In particular, for sufficiently large m, the smallest
positional value possible is larger than the largest possible summation value.
This fact allows us to enumerate all PPDIs in a given base, so long as there is
sufficient computing power available. One of the major objectives of the search
that Michael Jones and I undertook was to find all PPDIs in bases 2 through 10.
The resulting list was published in our Journal of Recreational Mathematics
paper and is reproduced below. The list includes a number of HPDIs.
It is not immediately obvious that the number of PDIs in a given base is
finite, since one can always increase the summation value by increasing k.
In fact, we were able to prove that many bases contain an infinite number of
PDIs.
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