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The alternating digit sum of a nonnegative integer in radix $b\ge 2$ iswith a positive sign on the units digit. Starting the signs from the opposite end can change the overall sign, so the convention should be stated.

Because $b\equiv -1(\mathrm{mod}b+1)$, the positional expansion gives $n\equiv A_b(n)(\mathrm{mod}b+1)$. This proves a divisibility test: $b+1$ divides the number exactly when it divides its alternating digit sum. In decimal notation, $1023$ has alternating sum $3-2+0-1=0$ and equals $11\cdot 93$.

The rule differs from the ordinary digit sum test modulo $b-1$, which instead uses $b\equiv 1$. Both follow from the same modular arithmetic principle of replacing the radix by its residue before evaluating the digit polynomial.

A balanced number is a positive integer whose first $\lceil k/2\rceil$ decimal digits have the same digit sum as its last $\lceil k/2\rceil$ decimal digits, where $k$ is the number of numerical digits. For odd $k$, the middle numerical digit appears on both sides and cancels, so only the equally long outer halves need to be compared.

For example, $123006$ is balanced because $1+2+3=0+0+6$. It is not a palindromic number: equality of two digit sums does not require reversed digits. At odd length, $12321$ is balanced because the outer pairs $12$ and $21$ both sum to three; its middle digit is irrelevant to the equality.

Digit dynamic programming can tabulate counts and value sums of fixed-length halves indexed by digit sum, then match equal indices. The first half must begin with a nonzero numerical digit, while the last half may contain initial zeros, as in $123006$. Preserving the half length is essential when assembling the positional value.

The digital root of a nonnegative integer in integer radix $b\ge 2$ is the single numerical digit obtained by repeatedly taking its digit sum. For example, in decimal representation, $347\mapsto 14\mapsto 5$, while $999\mapsto 27\mapsto 9$.

The process terminates: if $n\ge b$, some nonzero digit occupies a position above the units, so $n={\sum }_j{d}_j{b}^j>{\sum }_j{d}_j=s_b(n)$. The positive integers therefore decrease until a single numerical digit remains. Each step preserves the integer congruence class modulo $b-1$.

For positive inputs, every digit sum stays positive. The final digit lies in $1,\dots ,b-1$, rather than $0,\dots ,b-2$. Choosing the representative in this range giveswith ${\mathrm{dr}}_b(0)=0$. This explains why a positive multiple of $9$ has decimal digital root $9$, not zero. The formula combines modular arithmetic with the positivity of the terminating representative.

The digit sum of a nonnegative integer in a specified radix is the sum of its numerical digits. Ifwrite $s_b(n)={\sum }_j{d}_j$, with $s_b(0)=0$. For example, $s_{10}(347)=3+4+7=14$. In binary representation, the digit sum is the Hamming weight of the digit string.

Since $b\equiv 1(\mathrm{mod}b-1)$, the positional expansion givesIn decimal representation, this yields the familiar divisibility tests by $3$ and $9$: the integer and its digit sum have the same remainder modulo either. For $347$, both $347$ and $14$ leave remainder $5$ modulo $9$. The argument explains the rule from modular arithmetic, rather than relying on a pattern noticed in examples.

A pandigital prime is a prime number that is also a pandigital number for a specified radix, digit alphabet and repetition convention. For example, $2143$ uses each of $1,2,3,4$ exactly once and is prime; trial division by prime numbers at most its square root verifies the latter condition.

The digit sum supplies a useful obstruction. A decimal number using $1,\dots ,n$ exactly once has digit sum $n(n+1)/2$. If this sum is divisible by $3$ and the number exceeds $3$, the number is composite. In particular, a number using all ten decimal digits exactly once has digit sum $45$ and cannot be prime. The filter follows from the digit sum integer congruence, independently of the order in which the digits occur.

Pad every integer from $0$ through $999999$ with leading zeros to obtain a unique six-digit decimal string. If its digits sum to $5$, each digit is automatically at most $5$, so the usual digit upper bound $9$ adds no restriction. We therefore count the nonnegative integer solutions ofBy stars and bars, there are $\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{5+6-1}{6-1}\right)=\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{10}{5}\right)$. The all-zero string is not counted because its digit sum is zero, so every counted integer is positive. Thus the answer is $252$.