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A091093 In ternary representation: minimal number of editing steps (delete, insert or substitute) to transform n into n^2. 2
0, 0, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 4, 2, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 3, 3, 3, 5, 3, 5, 3, 3, 5, 5, 5, 6, 4, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 5, 5, 5, 6, 4, 5, 4, 4, 5, 5, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, 5, 4, 6, 4, 5, 4, 5, 4, 5, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 6, 4, 5, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,3

LINKS

Michael Gilleland, Levenshtein Distance [It has been suggested that this algorithm gives incorrect results sometimes. - N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com)]

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Square Number

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Ternary

FORMULA

a(n) = LevenshteinDistance(A007089(n), A001738(n)).

EXAMPLE

a(12)=2: 12->'110', insert a 2 between the 1's and insert a 0 at the end: '12100'->144=12^2.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A091092, A091091, A081604, A000290.

Sequence in context: A035438 A029260 A205725 * A049615 A114919 A087917

Adjacent sequences:  A091090 A091091 A091092 * A091094 A091095 A091096

KEYWORD

nonn,base

AUTHOR

Reinhard Zumkeller (reinhard.zumkeller(AT)gmail.com), Dec 18 2003

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