OFFSET
1,1
EXAMPLE
a(3) = 33 because 3^33 = 5559060566555523 is the smallest power of 3 that contains a run of exactly 3 consecutive 5's in its decimal form. (3^33 happens to contain also a run of exactly 4 consecutive 5's, so a(4) is also 33.)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
more,nonn,base
AUTHOR
Shyam Sunder Gupta, Aug 26 2007
EXTENSIONS
a(11)-a(14) from Lars Blomberg, Feb 02 2013
a(15) from Bert Dobbelaere, Mar 05 2019
a(3) corrected by Pontus von Brömssen, Jul 21 2024
STATUS
approved