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A046513
Numbers with multiplicative persistence value 4.
5
77, 177, 268, 277, 286, 348, 355, 377, 378, 379, 384, 387, 397, 438, 446, 464, 467, 476, 477, 483, 489, 498, 535, 553, 557, 575, 628, 644, 647, 668, 674, 677, 678, 682, 686, 687, 699, 717, 727, 737, 738, 739, 746, 747, 755, 764, 767, 768, 771, 772, 773
OFFSET
1,1
LINKS
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Multiplicative Persistence
EXAMPLE
737 -> [ 147 ][ 28 ][ 16 ][ 6 ] -> one digit in four steps.
MAPLE
mp:= proc(n) option remember;
if n <= 9 then return 0 fi;
1+procname(convert(convert(n, base, 10), `*`))
end proc:
select(mp=4, [$1..1000]); # Robert Israel, Feb 12 2019
MATHEMATICA
pr4Q[n_] := Length[NestWhileList[Times @@ IntegerDigits[#] &, n, # > 9 &]] == 5; Select[Range[773], pr4Q] (* Jayanta Basu, Jun 26 2013 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,base
AUTHOR
Patrick De Geest, Sep 15 1998
EXTENSIONS
Offset corrected by Robert Israel, Feb 12 2019
STATUS
approved