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A188531 Numbers which contain only the digit 4 in their base-5 representation, with at most one exception. If the exception is the most-significant digit, it must be the digit 1, 2, or 3, otherwise the exception must be the digit 3. 5

%I #29 Dec 14 2018 16:46:18

%S 1,2,3,4,9,14,19,23,24,49,74,99,119,123,124,249,374,499,599,619,623,

%T 624,1249,1874,2499,2999,3099,3119,3123,3124,6249,9374,12499,14999,

%U 15499,15599,15619,15623,15624,31249,46874,62499,74999,77499,77999,78099,78119

%N Numbers which contain only the digit 4 in their base-5 representation, with at most one exception. If the exception is the most-significant digit, it must be the digit 1, 2, or 3, otherwise the exception must be the digit 3.

%C The sequence lists the positive binomial coefficient predictors in base 5. For definition, see paper in link.

%H Alois P. Heinz, <a href="/A188531/b188531.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000</a>

%H V. Shevelev, <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL14/Shevelev/shevelev14.html">Binomial Coefficient Predictors</a>, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 14 (2011), Article 11.2.8.

%p a:= proc(n) option remember; local i, l, m, t;

%p m:= `if`(n=1, 0, a(n-1));

%p l:=NULL;

%p for t while m>0 do l:=l, irem(m, 5, 'm') od;

%p l:= array([l, 0]);

%p for i while l[i]=4 do od;

%p if l[i]<3 then l[i]:= l[i]+1

%p else l[i]:= 4;

%p if i>1 then l[i-1]:= 3 fi

%p fi;

%p add(l[i] *5^(i-1), i=1..t)

%p end:

%p seq(a(n), n=1..100); # _Alois P. Heinz_, Apr 03 2011

%t aQ[n_] := Module[{d=IntegerDigits[n,5]}, s=Select[d, #!=4 &]; s=={} || s =={3} || (d[[1]]<3 && s=={d[[1]]})]; Select[Range[100000], aQ] (* _Amiram Eldar_, Dec 14 2018 *)

%o (PARI) listb(nd) = {for (i = 1, nd, my(v = vector(nd, k, 4), kstart = if (i==1, 1, 3)); for (k=kstart,3, v[i] = k; print1(fromdigits(v, 5), ", "););); print1(fromdigits(vector(nd, k, 4), 5), ", ");}

%o lista(nnd) = {for (nd=1, nnd, listb(nd););} \\ _Michel Marcus_, Dec 14 2018

%Y Cf. A089633, A188341, A188499, A188529.

%K nonn,base

%O 1,2

%A _Vladimir Shevelev_, Apr 03 2011

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