A base-
Rhonda number is a positive integer 
, for an integer 
, whose product of base-
digits is equal
to 
times its sum
of prime factors, counted with multiplicity. These numbers were named by K. S. Brown
after an acquaintance of his whose residence number 25662 satisfies this property.
The etymology of the term is therefore similar to the Smith
numbers.
25662 is a Rhonda number to base-10 since its prime factorization is
 |
(1)
|
and the product of its base-10 digits satisfies
 |
(2)
|
The Rhonda numbers to base 10 are 1568, 2835, 4752, 5265, 5439, 5664, 5824, 5832, 8526, 12985, ... (OEIS A099542). The corresponding sums of prime factors are 24, 24, 28, 30, 54, 72, 32, 24, 48, 72, ... (OEIS A099543).
Rhonda numbers exist only for bases that are composite since there is no way for the product of integers less than a prime 
to have 
as a factor.
The first few Rhonda numbers for small composite bases 
are summarized in the following table.
 | OEIS |  -Rhonda numbers |
| 4 | A100968 | 10206, 11935, 12150, 16031, 45030, 94185, ... |
| 6 | A100969 | 855, 1029, 3813, 5577, 7040, 7304, 15104, 19136, ... |
| 8 | A100970 | 1836, 6318, 6622, 10530, 14500, 14739, 17655, 18550, 25398, ... |
| 9 | A100973 | 15540, 21054, 25331, 44360, 44660, 44733, 47652, ... |
| 10 | A099542 | 1568, 2835, 4752, 5265, 5439, 5664, 5824, 5832, 8526, 12985, ... |
| 12 | A100971 | 560, 800, 3993, 4425, 4602, 4888, 7315, 8296, 9315, 11849, 12028, ... |
| 14 | A100972 | 11475, 18655, 20565, 29631, 31725, 45387, 58404, 58667, 59950, ... |
| 15 | A100974 | 2392, 2472, 11468, 15873, 17424, 18126, 19152, 20079, 24388, ... |
| 16 | A100975 | 1000, 1134, 6776, 15912, 19624, 20043, 20355, 23946, 26296, ... |
The smallest Rhonda number is 560, which is Rhonda to base 12. The integers that are Rhonda numbers to some base are 
, 756, 800, 855, 1000, 1029, 1134, 1470, 1568, 1632, 1750,
1815, ... (OEIS A100987).
There exist integers that are Rhonda to more than one base. The smallest of these is 1000, which is Rhonda to bases 16 and 36, and the full sequence of these multiply Rhonda numbers begins 1000, 2940, 4200, 4212, 4725, 5670, 5824, ... (OEIS A100988).
That there are infinitely many Rhonda numbers can be seen from the following explicit construction. For any integer 
, the number 
is a Rhonda number to base 
, where 
is any positive integer
satisfying
 |
(3)
|
where 
denotes the sum of prime factors of 
, counted with multiplicity. This equation is guaranteed to
have at least one solution for 
so long as 
.
is expressed in base 
as
 |
(4)
|
so the product of the base 
digits of 
is 
.
The identity 
for positive integers 
and 
gives
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(5)
|
where in the last step we have used the defining equation for 
. Therefore, 
times the sum of the prime factors of 
is equal to 
, which is equal to the product of the base 
digits of 
.
As an example, let 
.
Then the defining equation for 
gives
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(6)
|
which is satisfied by 
,
and so 
is a Rhonda number to base 
.
