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A064869 The minimal number which has multiplicative persistence 5 in base n. 15
244140624, 3629, 1601, 1535, 394, 679, 317, 1099, 127, 135, 582, 187, 168, 157, 201, 159, 230, 215, 180, 185, 246, 181, 188, 195, 198, 323, 239, 255, 259, 267, 239, 287, 295, 293, 310, 313, 280, 377, 375, 395, 347, 360, 321, 370, 439, 431, 458, 355, 362 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

5,1

COMMENTS

The persistence of a number is the number of times you need to multiply the digits together before reaching a single digit. a(3) and a(4) seem not to exist.

LINKS

M. R. Diamond and D. D. Reidpath, A counterexample to a conjuncture of Sloane and Erdos, J. Recreational Math., 1998 29(2), 89-92. [Broken link?]

Sascha Kurz, Persistence in different bases

C. Rivera, Minimal prime with persistence p

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

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Multiplicative Persistence

FORMULA

a(n) = 6*n-[n/120] for n > 119

EXAMPLE

a(9)=394 because 394=[477]->[237]->[46]->[26]->[13]->[3] and no smaller n has persistence 5 in base 9.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A003001, A031346, A064867, A064868, A064870, A064871, A064872.

Sequence in context: A176364 A029831 A203885 * A016824 A016860 A016980

Adjacent sequences:  A064866 A064867 A064868 * A064870 A064871 A064872

KEYWORD

base,easy,nonn

AUTHOR

Sascha Kurz (sascha.kurz(AT)uni-bayreuth.de), Oct 09 2001

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