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A242347
Number of decimal digits of A008559.
2
1, 2, 4, 10, 31, 100, 330, 1093, 3628, 12049, 40023, 132951, 441651, 1467130, 4873698, 16190071, 53782249, 178660761, 593498199, 1971558339
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
a(n+1)/a(n) is approximately log_2(10) = A020862. - André Engels, Apr 01 2021
LINKS
Code Golf StackExchange, Length of Binary as Base 10 [OEIS A242347], coding challenge started Oct 28 2022.
FORMULA
a(n) = A055642(A008559(n)). - Michel Marcus, May 11 2014
EXAMPLE
a(3) = 4 because 1010 has 4 decimal digits.
PROG
(Python)
A242347_list, l = [1], 2
for _ in range(10):
....l = int(bin(l)[2:])
....A242347_list.append(len(str(l))) # Chai Wah Wu, Dec 26 2014
(PARI) a242347(n) = {my (k=2, d=digits); while(n--, k=fromdigits(d(k, 2))); #d(k)} \\ Hugo Pfoertner, Nov 04 2022
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,base,more
AUTHOR
J. Lowell, May 11 2014
EXTENSIONS
a(1), a(18)-a(20) from Chai Wah Wu, Dec 26 2014
STATUS
approved