login

Year-end appeal: Please make a donation to the OEIS Foundation to support ongoing development and maintenance of the OEIS. We are now in our 61st year, we have over 378,000 sequences, and we’ve reached 11,000 citations (which often say “discovered thanks to the OEIS”).

A048437
Take the first n numbers written in base 5, concatenate them, then convert from base 5 to base 10.
18
1, 7, 38, 194, 4855, 121381, 3034532, 75863308, 1896582709, 47414567735, 1185364193386, 29634104834662, 740852620866563, 18521315521664089, 463032888041602240, 11575822201040056016, 289395555026001400417
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
The first three primes in this sequence occur for n = 2 (a(2) = 7), n = 113 (a(113) = 7.4484...*10^216), n = 162 (a(162) = 1.5188...*10^346). - Kurt Foster, Oct 24 2015 [Comment added by N. J. A. Sloane, Oct 25 2015]
LINKS
EXAMPLE
a(7) = 1 2 3 4 10 11 12 = 3034532_10.
MATHEMATICA
If[STARTPOINT==1, n={}, n=Flatten[IntegerDigits[Range[STARTPOINT-1], 5]]]; Table[AppendTo[n, IntegerDigits[w, 5]]; n=Flatten[n]; FromDigits[n, 5], {w, STARTPOINT, ENDPOINT}] (* Dylan Hamilton, Aug 11 2010 *)
f[n_]:= FromDigits[Flatten@IntegerDigits[Range@n, 5], 5]; Array[f, 20] (* Vincenzo Librandi, Dec 30 2012 *)
PROG
(Magma) [n eq 1 select 1 else Self(n-1)*5^(1+Ilog(5, n))+n: n in [1..20]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Dec 30 2012
CROSSREFS
Cf. A014827.
Concatenation of first n numbers in other bases: 2: A047778, 3: A048435, 4: A048436, 5: this sequence, 6: A048438, 7: A048439, 8: A048440, 9: A048441, 10: A007908, 11: A048442, 12: A048443, 13: A048444, 14: A048445, 15: A048446, 16: A048447.
Sequence in context: A055146 A014827 A141845 * A099461 A104553 A027241
KEYWORD
nonn,base,easy
AUTHOR
Patrick De Geest, May 15 1999
STATUS
approved