Search: id:A014553 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A014553 %S A014553 1,4,5,6,7,7,8,9,9,10,10,10,10,10,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11, %T A014553 11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11, %U A014553 11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11 %N A014553 Maximal multiplicative persistence (or length) of any n-digit number. %C A014553 The "persistence" or "length" of an N-digit decimal number is the number of times one must iteratively form the product of its digits until one obtains a one-digit product (For another definition see A003001.) %C A014553 For all other n<2530, a[n]=11 because sequence is non-decreasing and a number with multiplicative persistence 12 must have more than 2530 digits. - Sascha Kurz (sascha.kurz(AT)uni-bayreuth.de), Mar 24 2002 %D A014553 Gottlieb, A. J. Problems 28-29 in ``Bridge, Group Theory and a Jigsaw Puzzle.'' Techn. Rev. 72, unpaginated, Dec. 1969. %D A014553 Gottlieb, A. J. Problem 29 in ``Integral Solutions, Ladders and Pentagons.'' Techn. Rev. 72, unpaginated, Apr. 1970. %H A014553 Beeler, M., Gosper, R. W. and Schroeppel, R., HAKMEM, ITEM 56 %H A014553 N. J. A. Sloane, The persistence of a number, J. Recreational Math., 6 (1973), 97-98. %H A014553 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics. %e A014553 168889 is not in A003001 because a(6) = a(5) = 7 %Y A014553 Cf. A003001, A031346, A035927. %Y A014553 Sequence in context: A114546 A067471 A102691 this_sequence A121855 A090925 A143836 %Y A014553 Adjacent sequences: A014550 A014551 A014552 this_sequence A014554 A014555 A014556 %K A014553 nonn,easy,base %O A014553 1,2 %A A014553 Eric Weisstein (eric(AT)weisstein.com) %E A014553 Corrected by N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com) 11/95. %E A014553 More terms from John W. Layman (layman(AT)math.vt.edu), Mar 19 2002 Search completed in 0.001 seconds