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A119281
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Number of counting rods to represent n in the ancient Chinese rod numeral system.
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1
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0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 3, 4, 5, 6, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 4, 5, 6, 7, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 5, 6, 7, 8, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 6, 7, 8, 9, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 7, 8, 9, 10, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 4, 5, 6, 7, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 5, 6, 7, 8, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 6, 7, 8, 9, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 7, 8, 9, 10, 1, 2, 3
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OFFSET
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0,3
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COMMENTS
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Contrast with A092196, the number of letters to represent n in ancient Roman numerals. Negative numbers were represented by the same number of rods but usually of a different color (usually black rods with red rods for positive numbers). It's unclear to me whether 0 itself was ever formally considered represented by the absence of all counting rods, but it does seem reasonable that a(0)=0 from the example below.
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FORMULA
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EXAMPLE
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a(105) = 6 because 105 was represented on a counting board by placing one counting rod in the compartment for hundreds, no rods where those representing tens were normally placed and five rods in the units compartment.
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PROG
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(PARI) a(n)= tmp=abs(n); r=0; l=length(Str(tmp)); for(k=1, l, d=tmp-(tmp\10)*10; tmp=tmp\10; if(d<6, r=r+d, r=r+d-4)); r
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CROSSREFS
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KEYWORD
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base,easy,nonn
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AUTHOR
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STATUS
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approved
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