OFFSET
1,1
LINKS
Daniel Mondot, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000 (terms 1..1000 from Robert Israel)
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Multiplicative Persistence
EXAMPLE
2677889 -> [ 338688 ][ 27648 ][ 2688 ][ 768 ][ 336 ][ 54 ][ 20 ][ 0 ] -> one digit in eight 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=8, [$1..4000000]); # Robert Israel, Feb 12 2019
MATHEMATICA
okQ[n_]:=Length[NestWhileList[Times@@IntegerDigits[#]&, n, IntegerLength[ #]>1&]]==9; Select[Range[2700000], okQ] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jan 29 2011 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,base
AUTHOR
Patrick De Geest, Sep 15 1998
EXTENSIONS
Offset corrected by Robert Israel, Feb 12 2019
STATUS
approved
