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Happy number


A happy number is a number defined by the following process: Starting with any positive integer, replace the number by the sum of the squares of its digits, and repeat the process until the number either equals 1 (where it will stay), or it loops endlessly in a cycle that does not include 1. Those numbers for which this process ends in 1 are happy numbers, while those that do not end in 1 are unhappy numbers (or sad numbers).

More formally, given a number , define a sequence , , ... where is the sum of the squares of the digits of . Then n is happy if and only if there exists i such that .


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