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A280642 Numbers k such that k^3 has an odd number of digits and the middle digit is 2. 3

%I #12 Jan 02 2023 12:30:52

%S 5,9,103,113,133,146,151,154,165,180,198,202,470,473,493,496,504,507,

%T 521,531,538,542,566,569,581,591,593,599,612,618,620,650,654,673,681,

%U 686,703,711,715,728,729,732,740,779,801,829,841,850,855,856,857,858,874

%N Numbers k such that k^3 has an odd number of digits and the middle digit is 2.

%C The sequence of cubes starts: 125, 729, 1092727, 1442897, 2352637, 3112136, 3442951, 3652264, ...

%H Lars Blomberg, <a href="/A280642/b280642.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000</a>

%H Jeremy Gardiner, <a href="http://list.seqfan.eu/oldermail/seqfan/2016-December/017135.html">Middle digit in cube numbers</a>, Seqfan Mailing list, Dec 12 2016.

%e 5^3 = 1(2)5, 180^3 = 583(2)000, 618^3 = 2360(2)9032.

%t a[n_]:=Part[IntegerDigits[n],(Length[IntegerDigits[n]]+1)/2];

%t Select[Range[0,874],OddQ[Length[IntegerDigits[#^3]]] && a[#^3]==2 &] (* _Indranil Ghosh_, Mar 06 2017 *)

%o (PARI)

%o isok(k) = my(d=digits(k^3)); (#d%2 == 1) && (d[#d\2 +1] == 2);

%o for(k=0, 874, if(isok(k)==1, print1(k, ", "))); \\ _Indranil Ghosh_, Mar 06 2017

%o (Python)

%o i=0

%o j=1

%o while i<=874:

%o n=str(i**3)

%o l=len(n)

%o if l%2 and n[(l-1)//2]=="2":

%o print(str(i), end=', ')

%o j+=1

%o i+=1 # _Indranil Ghosh_, Mar 06 2017

%Y Cf. A280640-A280641, A280643-A280649, A181354.

%Y See A279420-A279429 for a k^2 version.

%Y See A279430-A279431 for a k^2 version in base 2.

%K nonn,base,easy

%O 1,1

%A _Lars Blomberg_, Jan 07 2017

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