Puzzle time - integers
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What Klaus missed:
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The only ‘noise’ (besides all multiples of 5) is the number 1.
- 2 is granted which gets you all numbers ending in 2 or 7.
- 7^2 is 49 which gets you all the numbers ending in 9 and 4 above that
- after 49 is 54. 54^2 is 3136 which gets you all the numbers ending in 6 or 1 above it.
BUT - once you have the *6s, you’ll get to 6^8 which gets you back to 6 and 11, etc.
- that gets you to 16 which gets you back to 4 and 9
- that 9 gets you back to 3 and 8
So we have 2,3,4,6,7,8,9 covered plus any number that is a multiple of 5 above them.
So only 1 is missing, along with all multiples of 5
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