The folklore conjecture on integers with binary digits in bases 3, 4 and 5

For an integer, say that its base-bb expansion contains solely the digits 00 and 11 when no other digit occurs. Folklore base-expansion conjecture. The only integers whose base-33, base-44, and base-55 expansions contain solely the digits 00 and 11 are

0,1,82000.0,1,82000.

This conjecture is presented as an intriguing folklore problem concerning a known integer sequence; the paper reports progress toward it, but does not resolve it.

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Primary source

Stuart A. Burrell and Han Yu, “Digit expansions of numbers in different bases”, arXiv:1905.00832 (2021).

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