A131539 Least power of 2 having exactly n consecutive 5's in its decimal representation.

8, 16, 76, 41, 1162, 973, 6838, 25265, 81782, 456686, 279270, 1727606, 6030753, 23157026

Offset

1,1

Comments

No more terms < 28*10^6.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..14.

Popular Computing (Calabasas, CA), Two Tables, Vol. 1, (No. 9, Dec 1973), page PC9-16.

Example

a(3)=76 because 2^76(i.e. 75557863725914323419136) is the smallest power of 2 to contain a run of 3 consecutive fives in its decimal form.

Mathematica

a = ""; Do[ a = StringJoin[a, "5"]; b = StringJoin[a, "5"]; k = 1; While[ StringPosition[ ToString[2^k], a] == {} || StringPosition[ ToString[2^k], b] != {}, k++ ]; Print[k], {n, 1, 10} ]

Crossrefs

Sequence in context: A278747 A218066 A157164 * A331419 A271080 A117868

Adjacent sequences: A131536 A131537 A131538 * A131540 A131541 A131542

Keyword

more,nonn,base

Author

Shyam Sunder Gupta, Aug 26 2007

Extensions

2 more terms from Sean A. Irvine, Jul 19 2010

a(13)-a(14) from Lars Blomberg, Jan 24 2013

Status

approved