OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
For definitions see A288350. An exhaustive computation for the 9^8 strings of 8 digits confirms that for all of them formulas avoiding divisions exist. a(8) = 0 implies that a(n) = 0 for n > 8.
EXAMPLE
a(3)=5, because the 5 3-digit strings 263 (0=2-6/3), 284 (0=2-8/4), 362 (0=3-6/2), 393 (3-9/3), 482 (0=4-8/2) are the only ones of the 9^3-A288351(3)=274 3-digit strings for which a formula with result 0 exists that cannot avoid including a division.
A288502 provides a list of all strings with this property.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Hugo Pfoertner, Jun 10 2017
STATUS
approved