On a conjecture of John Hoffman regarding sums of palindromic numbers

Abstract

We disprove the conjecture that every sufficiently large natural number $n$ is the sum of three palindromic natural numbers where one of them can be chosen to be the largest or second largest palindromic natural number smaller than or equal to $n$.

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• Every natural number is the sum of forty-nine palindromes