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How many positive integers less than or equal to 100 cannot be written as the sum of distinct powers of 3?

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There are precisely 77 positive integers <= 100 that cannot be written as the sum of distinct powers of 3.

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Posted by K Sengupta on 2022-06-04 00:49:49

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