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A199979
Nonprime numbers whose multiplicative digital root is 1.
0
1, 111, 1111, 11111, 111111, 1111111, 11111111, 111111111, 1111111111, 11111111111, 111111111111, 1111111111111, 11111111111111, 111111111111111, 1111111111111111, 11111111111111111, 111111111111111111, 11111111111111111111, 111111111111111111111
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
1 and the composite repunits.
Number of 1's in a(n) is in A179005. Complement of A004022 with respect to A002275.
EXAMPLE
1111 has a multiplicative digital root of 1 and it is the product of 11 and 101, therefore it is in the sequence.
11 has a multiplicative digital root of 1 but it is a prime number and therefore it is not in the sequence.
MATHEMATICA
Select[Table[(10^n - 1)/9, {n, 20}], Not[PrimeQ[#]] &] (* Alonso del Arte, Nov 23 2011 *)
CROSSREFS
Cf. A004022 (primes whose multiplicative digital root is 1).
Sequence in context: A289964 A290619 A290627 * A102782 A302475 A303256
KEYWORD
nonn,base
AUTHOR
Jaroslav Krizek, Nov 13 2011
STATUS
approved