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A031286 Additive persistence: number of summations of digits needed to obtain a single digit (the additive digital root.) 4
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,20

COMMENTS

The paper titled "The persistence of a number" is about multiplicative persistence: number of products of digits needed to obtain a single digit (the multiplicative digital root). - Daniel Forgues, Oct 08 2011

REFERENCES

M. Gardner, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More Mathematical Recreations from Scientific American, Persistence of Numbers, pp. 120-1; 186-7, W. H. Freeman NY 1992

M. R. Diamond and D. D. Reidpath, A Counterexample to Conjectures by Sloane and Erdos Concerning the Persistence of Numbers, Journal of Recreational Mathematics, 29(2) 89-92 1998.

LINKS

N. J. A. Sloane, The persistence of a number, J. Recreational Math., 6 (1973), 97-98.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Additive Persistence

CROSSREFS

Cf. A010888 (additive digital root of n).

Cf. A031347 (multiplicative digital root of n).

Cf. A031346 (multiplicative persistence of n).

Sequence in context: A060128 A031280 A134870 * A031276 A098744 A025429

Adjacent sequences:  A031283 A031284 A031285 * A031287 A031288 A031289

KEYWORD

nonn,base

AUTHOR

Eric Weisstein (eric(AT)weisstein.com)

EXTENSIONS

Corrected by Reinhard Zumkeller (reinhard.zumkeller(AT)gmail.com), Feb 05 2009

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