OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Primes in this sequence are listed in A252483. The subsequence A156954 is a simpler variant where no parentheses, unary operations (negation) nor concatenation is allowed. - M. F. Hasler, Jan 07 2015
REFERENCES
Credit goes to Mike Reid (Brown University) and Eric Friedman (Stetson University).
Colin Rose, "Radical Narcissistic numbers", J. Recreational Mathematics, vol. 33, (2004-2005), pp. 250-254. See page 251.
LINKS
M. Brand, Friedman numbers have density 1, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Volume 161, Issues 16-17, November 2013, Pages 2389-2395.
Ed Copeland and Brady Haran, Friedman numbers, Numberphile video, 2014
Eric Friedman, Friedman Numbers.
Robert G. Wilson v, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..108 .
EXAMPLE
127 = -1 + 2^7, 343 = (3 + 4) ^ 3, 736 = 7 + 3^6, etc.
The 4th "orderly" Friedman number is 1285 = (1 + 2^8) * 5.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,base,nice
AUTHOR
David Rattner (david_rattner(AT)prusec.com), Mar 14 2003
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Alonso del Arte, Aug 25 2004
Edited by M. F. Hasler, Jan 07 2015
STATUS
approved