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A000030 Initial digit of n.
(Formerly M0470)
104
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET

0,3

COMMENTS

n is the concatenation of a(n) and A217657(n). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Oct 10 2012

REFERENCES

A. Cobham, Uniform Tag Sequences, Mathematical Systems Theory, 6 (1972), 164-192.

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

LINKS

David W. Wilson, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000

FORMULA

a(n) = [n / 10^([log_10(n)])] where [] denotes floor and log_10(n) is the logarithm is base 10. - Dan Fux (dan.fux(AT)OpenGaia.com or danfux(AT)OpenGaia.com), Apr 07 2001

EXAMPLE

23 begins with a 2, so a(23) = 2.

MATHEMATICA

First[IntegerDigits[#]]&/@Range[90] (* From Harvey P. Dale, Mar 1 2011 *)

PROG

(PARI) a(n)=if(n<1, 0, if(n<10, n, a(n\10)))

(Haskell)

a000030 = until (< 10) (`div` 10)

-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 20 2012, Feb 11 2011

(PARI) A000030(n)=Vecsmall(Str(n))[1]-48  \\ - M. F. Hasler, Jun 19 2011

CROSSREFS

Cf. A061681, A130571, A109453, A134010, A052038.

A002993, A089951, A002994, A143464, A098174, A098175, A072543, A072544, A073600, A073601, A037904. [From Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 17 2008]

Sequence in context: A052423 A126616 A121042 * A179635 A216587 A174210

Adjacent sequences:  A000027 A000028 A000029 * A000031 A000032 A000033

KEYWORD

nonn,base,easy,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane, Simon Plouffe

STATUS

approved

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