Article: Smarandache "Chopped" [N.sup.N] and N + [1.sup.N-1].

Florentin Smarandache has posed many problems that deal with perfect powers. See [1] for example. Perfect powers of the form [N.sup.N] are aesthetically pleasing because of their symmetry. But in my opinion they would be more agreeable if their number of decimal digits (their "length" in base-10 representation) were equal to N. In this note we will considere numbers of the form [N.sup.N] and N - [1.sup.N+1] that have been "chopped off" to have N decimal digits. We will refer to these numbers as Smarandache Chopped [N.sup.N] numbers, and Smarandache Chopped N - [1.sup.N+1] numbers; and we will investigate them to see if 1) they are prime, 2) they are automorphic.

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