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Serve happy number checks at scale

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AppleSystem designLast asked Oct 2025

A service answers whether a number eventually reaches 1 when you keep replacing it with the sum of the squares of its digits. Scale it to a large volume of requests: caching or precomputing results (every number quickly falls into a small range), sharing results between servers, and load balancing.

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