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A077268
Number of bases in which n requires at least one zero to be written.
3
0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 3, 3, 4, 3, 5, 2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 6, 4, 6, 4, 3, 2, 7, 3, 4, 5, 7, 4, 7, 2, 6, 5, 5, 6, 8, 4, 5, 5, 8, 3, 7, 2, 5, 6, 4, 3, 9, 4, 7, 7, 7, 4, 9, 6, 8, 4, 4, 3, 11, 3, 4, 5, 7, 7, 9, 4, 6, 6, 9, 4, 11, 5, 6, 8, 7, 7, 9, 4, 9, 6, 6, 5, 12, 6, 5, 5, 9, 4, 11, 5, 6, 4, 4, 5, 11, 4, 7, 8, 10, 6
OFFSET
1,4
LINKS
EXAMPLE
a(9)=3 since it requires zeros when written in bases 2, 3 or 9 (as 1001, 100 or 10 respectively).
PROG
(Sage) def A077268(n) : return sum(0 in n.digits(m) for m in range(2, n+1)) # Eric M. Schmidt, Jul 09 2014
(PARI) a(n) = sum(i=2, n, ! vecmin(digits(n, i))); \\ Michel Marcus, Jul 09 2014
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
base,nonn
AUTHOR
Henry Bottomley, Nov 01 2002
STATUS
approved