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Is there a general pattern of 1's and 0's in a binary number which is the square of a binary number containing only 1's? Try squares of 11, 111, 1111 etc? To generalize you might use the fact that the sum of powers of two is a geometric series.
Find all 3 digit numbers such that by adding the first digit, the square of the second and the cube of the third you get the original number, for example 1 + 3^2 + 5^3 = 135.
We are used to writing numbers in base ten, using 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Eg. 75 means 7 tens and five units. This article explains how numbers can be written in any number base.