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The original article, by Thomas Oléron Evans [0], does something similar. I made a graph of it here. It's a heuristic estimate of the expected number of integers that satisfy the property for bases (2..b), as a function of b.

https://i.imgur.com/3h8GSIp.png

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9f71926313e6ee5c595c

As the author writes, for b <= 4, the expected number diverges to +infinity. For b = 5, the expected number is less than one, and quickly decreases. So, the conjecture is that there is no satisfying solution for b >= 6.

[0] http://www.mathistopheles.co.uk/maths/covering-all-the-bases...



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