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a(1) = 1, a(n) = smallest multiple of n using prime digits if n is composite else smallest multiple of n using composite digits, with a(n) = 0 if there are none.
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%I #7 Sep 17 2024 22:44:54

%S 1,4,6,32,40,72,49,32,27,0,44,72,468,252,75,32,68,72,494,0,252,22,46,

%T 72,25,52,27,252,406,0,496,32,33,272,35,72,444,532,273,0,984,252,86,

%U 352,225,322,94,2352,735,0,255,52,689,2322,55,2352,57,232,649,0

%N a(1) = 1, a(n) = smallest multiple of n using prime digits if n is composite else smallest multiple of n using composite digits, with a(n) = 0 if there are none.

%C Besides multiples of 10, 625 and its odd multiples have a(n)=0. Based on comment by _Robert Israel_ in A078239. - _Andrew Howroyd_, Sep 17 2024

%H Andrew Howroyd, <a href="/A078250/b078250.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000</a>

%o (PARI) a(n)={if(n%10==0||n%1250==625, 0, if(n==1, 1, my(S=Set([2, 3, 5, 7])); forstep(m=n, oo, n, my(d=digits(m)); if(0 == #if(isprime(n),select(t->t==1||setsearch(S, t), d), select(t->!setsearch(S,t),d)), return(m)))))} \\ _Andrew Howroyd_, Sep 17 2024

%Y Cf. A074162, A078239, A078240.

%K base,easy,nonn

%O 1,2

%A _Amarnath Murthy_, Nov 24 2002

%E a(13) corrected and a(29) onwards from _Andrew Howroyd_, Sep 17 2024