185 is special

[zak seidov]

Great!
I've just found it in my old files.
Congrats!
Zak

PS This is another "puzzle"
only loosely related to 185:
27, 333, 63, 234, 36 
%C all are 9k; k = 3, 37, 7, 26, 4.
%K fini, full

PPS 
A001358(60)=A117828(29)=A004148(10)=A079955(24)=A006881(54)=A119714(23)=A000712(9)=A018804(57)=A020882(29)=A020882(30)=A122618(45)=...

At all 180 cases. Anyone may wish to contribute?

--- Jon Schoenfield <jonscho at hiwaay.net> wrote:

> Zak,
> 
> <<  Anyone has a clue?  >>
> 
> I frequently feel clueless, but not this time.  (I
> guess that means this 
> problem is special.)  ;-)
> 
> Start with a(1) = 185 (because it's special <g>);
> then a(n+1) = a(n), taken as a base-10 number and
> converted to base (b(n)+1)
>                          where b(n) = the largest
> digit of a(n)
> E.g.,
> 
> largest digit in 185 is 8, and 185 (base 10)
> converted to base 9 is 225;
> largest digit in 225 is 5, and 225 (base 10)
> converted to base 6 is 1013;
> largest digit in 1013 is 3, and 1013 (base 10)
> converted to base 4 is 33311 
> ....
> 
> Did I get it right?
> 
> -- Jon
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "zak seidov" <zakseidov at yahoo.com>
> To: "Sequence Fans" <seqfan at ext.jussieu.fr>
> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 10:53 PM
> Subject: Re: 185 is special
> 
> 
> > Puzzle sequence
> > (found in my archive, clue is lost):
> > 185,225,1013,33311,20020133,
> > 1030113232211,
> > 32333113202020111103,...
> > I guess that though 185 is a rather arbitrary
> a(1),
> > other terms  are not arbitrary.
> > Anyone has a clue?
> > Zak
> >



 
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