[seqfan] Re: Sum divides concatenation

Charles Greathouse charles.greathouse at case.edu
Mon Sep 28 19:23:26 CEST 2009


It's not in the database.  The terms are
1, 2, 6, 250488, 19986, 118030, 133970, 693810, 2231328, 3407286,
5733260, 25176334, 75529002, ...

The next term is more than 100 million.  A good program could find
these values quickly, but I just used a few minutes of brute force.

Charles Greathouse
Analyst/Programmer
Case Western Reserve University

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Jack Brennen <jfb at brennen.net> wrote:
> The next term would be 250488, if that's any help:
>
>   126250488 == (1+2+6+250488) * 504
>
> Eric Angelini wrote:
>> Hello SeqFans,
>> I don't know how to find more terms -- thus I don't know
>> if this is old hat in Neil's database:
>>
>> 1, 2, 6, ...
>>
>> The sum of the first n integers divides the concatanion of
>> the first n integers; always prolong the seq with the smal-
>> lest _natural_ number not yet used:
>>
>> 1 divides 1  --> HIT
>> 1+2   (=3) divides 12 --> HIT
>> 1+2+3 (=6) does not divide 123
>> 1+2+4 (=7) does not divide 124
>> 1+2+5 (=8) does not divide 125
>> 1+2+6 (=9) divides 126 --> HIT
>> etc.
>>
>> Best,
>> É.
>>
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