OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
Assume that a zero precedes all decimal expansions. This will take care of those cases in A001020.
Inspired by the seqfan list discussion Re: "possible sequence", beginning with David Wilson 7:57 PM Mar 06 2014 and continued by M. F. Hasler, Allan Wechsler and Franklin T. Adams-Watters.
EXAMPLE
Illustration of initial term, with the 0 enclosed in parentheses:
n, position of 0, 11^a(n)
1, 2, (0)1
2, 3, (0)11
3, 4, (0)121
4, 5, (0)1331
5, 6, (0)14641
6, 7, (0)1771561
7, 8, (0)19487171
8, 9, (0)214358881
9, 10, (0)2357947691
10, 11, (0)3138428376721
11, 12, (0)34522712143931
12, 13, (0)379749833583241
13, 14, (0)4177248169415651
14, 15, (0)45949729863572161
15, 16, (0)5559917313492231481
16, 17, 3091268053287(0)672635673352936887453361
...
- N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 16 2020
MATHEMATICA
f[n_] := Position[ Reverse@ Join[{0}, IntegerDigits[ PowerMod[11, n, 10^500]]], 0, 1, 1][[1, 1]]; k = mx = 0; lst = {}; While[k < 40000001, c = f[k]; If[c > mx, mx = c; AppendTo[ lst, k]; Print@ k]; k++]; lst
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,base,more
AUTHOR
Charles R Greathouse IV and Robert G. Wilson v, Mar 14 2014
EXTENSIONS
a(28)-a(34) from Bert Dobbelaere, Jan 22 2019
a(35)-a(36) from Chai Wah Wu, Jan 16 2020
STATUS
approved