OFFSET
13,1
COMMENTS
The persistence of a number is the number of times you need to multiply the digits together before reaching a single digit. a(7)=1086400325525346, a(10)=2677889, a(11)=757074, a(8) and a(9) seem not to exist.
LINKS
M. R. Diamond and D. D. Reidpath, A counterexample to a conjecture of Sloane and Erdos, J. Recreational Math., 1998 29(2), 89-92.
Sascha Kurz, Persistence in different bases
T. Lamont-Smith, Multiplicative Persistence and Absolute Multiplicative Persistence, J. Int. Seq., Vol. 24 (2021), Article 21.6.7.
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) = 9*n-[n/40320] for n > 40319.
EXAMPLE
a(13) = 7577 because 7577 is the fewest number with persistence 8 in base 13.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
base,easy,nonn
AUTHOR
Sascha Kurz, Oct 08 2001
STATUS
approved