%I #16 Feb 16 2023 17:01:21
%S 133,51,34,6,12,21,2,172,72,0,3579,5,49,0,0,2,3890,0,593,0,689,0,1038,
%T 138,1,0,10927,17,7,0,13,58,4565,0,0,973,359,0,4930,0,5314,0,3,27,0,0,
%U 2500,106,1176,0,1326,219,506,0,0,466,8043,0,68,0,92,0,3007,1574,0,0,121,327,7049,0,7535,548,9126,0,33
%N Least number k such that k concatenated with n is a cube, or 0 if no such k exists.
%C a(n) = 0 if and only if n is in A246449.
%H Chai Wah Wu, <a href="/A246561/b246561.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000</a>
%e 512 is the smallest cube ending with digit 2, so a(2) = 51.
%o (PARI)
%o b(n)=v=[];for(k=10^(n-1),10^n,v=concat(v,k^3%10^n));v=vecsort(v,,8);v
%o w=[];for(k=1,250,d=digits(k);if(vecsearch(b(#d),k),w=concat(w,k)));w=vecsort(w,,8);w;
%o a(n)=if(!vecsearch(w,n),return(0));if(vecsearch(w,n),j=1;s=Str(n);while(!ispower(eval(concat(Str(j),s)),3),j++);return(j))
%o vector(200,n,a(n))
%o (Python)
%o from sympy import nthroot_mod
%o def A246561(n): return 0 if len(l:=nthroot_mod(n,3,(m:=10**(len(str(n)))))) == 0 else int((min(x for x in l+[d+m for d in l] if x**3>=m)**3-n)//m) # _Chai Wah Wu_, Feb 16 2023
%Y Cf. A000578, A246449, A245631.
%K nonn,look,base
%O 1,1
%A _Derek Orr_, Aug 29 2014
%E a(27), a(29) and a(43) corrected by _Chai Wah Wu_, Feb 16 2023