Digital Root

Digit sum, summed down to a single digit.

Sum the digits, then sum the digits of the result, until one digit remains: 763 → 7+6+3=16 → 1+6=7, so 7 is the digital root of 763. The digital root of 0 is defined as 0; every other number lands between 1 and 9.

0–9(10 个)
Value range
≈ 11.1%
111,112 for root 1; 111,111 each for roots 2–9
Count per value
0
Only the number 0 itself · 1 holder
Rarest
仅展示,不计分
Scoring

You never actually have to iterate: the digital root has a mod-9 shortcut — every number is congruent to its digit sum modulo 9, so the digital root is just n mod 9 (taking 9 when the remainder is 0, and 0 for n=0). This powers the ancient checking trick "casting out nines": take digital roots of both sides of an addition or multiplication and they must match, or the arithmetic is certainly wrong.

The distribution is almost perfectly flat: across 0–1,000,000, digital root 1 has 111,112 holders (including 1,000,000 itself), roots 2–9 have 111,111 each — about 11.1% apiece. The lone exception is root 0, held only by the number 0 itself: a theoretical singleton.

In RNGdle, the digital root appears in the Digit Profile for display only and is not scored: it is congruent to the digit sum (mod 9), so the digit-sum family already covers everything it knows — scoring it too would hand every number duplicate EP. For the scored version, see the Digit Sum entry.

Notable examples

0 The only holder of digital root 0 — a site-wide singleton.
999,999 Digital root 9: digit sum 54 → 5+4=9.
123,456 Digital root 3: 1+2+3+4+5+6=21 → 2+1=3.

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