Oh, sure. My reply was more of a meta argument than really a defense of the meaning of 6174. There's no reason to say that there isn't some property of its rep

Oh, sure. My reply was more of a meta argument than really a defense of the meaning of 6174. There's no reason to say that there isn't some property of its representation in base N that isn't useful, but it's pretty unlikely to be general in any interpretation we're used to dealing with (thus the re-representation of "2").