Kaprekar number

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A non-negative integer, the representation of whose square in its base can be split into two parts that add up to itself (such as 297, whose square, 88209, can be split into 88 and 209, totalling 297).

Word forms

Kaprekar number Kaprekar numbers

Etymology

After the Indian mathematician Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar (1905-1986).

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