[seqfan] Re: Proposal for "Big Numbers" paper

Neil Sloane njasloane at gmail.com
Sat Jan 25 19:13:37 CET 2014


Then there is Gijswijt's sequence A090822, which starts off
with 1's, 2's, 3's and 4's. You could search until the
universe went cold before finding a 5. But the sequence
goes to infinity, with the first 5 at term (about) 10^(10^23).


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Andrew Weimholt <andrew.weimholt at gmail.com
> wrote:

> A124505(27) = 10827543712227210782977570287648768000000
> Number of regular 27-dimensional simplices that can be
> inscribed on the vertices of a 27-cube.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:54 PM, <franktaw at netscape.net> wrote:
>
> > A121977(1) = 100000000011111112222222333333444445555666778
> > Smallest number such that each digit 0-9 occurs a different number of
> > times.
> >
> > Franklin T. Adams-Watters
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Wilson <davidwwilson at comcast.net>
> > To: 'Sequence Fanatics Discussion list' <seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>
> > Sent: Fri, Jan 24, 2014 8:47 pm
> > Subject: [seqfan] Proposal for "Big Numbers" paper
> >
> >
> > I was watching some of the Numberphile videos on Youtube, and partly
> > motivated by the recent foray into Harshad numbers, I had the following
> > thought. It might be nice for the seqfans to write a collective paper
> (OEIS
> > editors et al) on interesting large numbers in the OEIS, which we could
> > then
> > submit to the Numberphile people as a possible subject for a video or
> > videos. (Face it, who are more Numberphilic than the seqfans?)
> >
> > Optimally, we would want to choose large numbers with fundamental appeal,
> > that could reasonably be explained in a video. I give the examples at the
> > end. The paper could also include some discussion of the meaning of the
> > number.
> >
> > A045911(6195) = 78526384
> > Almost certainly the largest number which is neither a positive cube, nor
> > the sum of a positive cube and a prime number.
> >
> > A035490(54) = 252992198
> > The number of perfect in-shuffles of increasing size required to bring
> the
> > 54th card to the top of an infinite deck.
> >
> > A036236(3) = 4700063497
> > Smallest number n > 1 such that 2^n == 3 (mod n).
> >
> > A003001(11) = 277777788888899
> > Smallest number of persistence 11 (product of digits can be taken 11
> times
> > before reaching a single-digit number). No number is believed to have
> > persistence 12 or more.
> >
> > A075152(3) = 43252003274489856000
> > Number of permutations of a 3x3x3 Rubik's cube (already subject of a
> > Numberphile video).
> >
> > A009190(2) = 2061519317176132799110061
> > Smallest known twin peak. N and N+146 have smallest prime factor 73, all
> > numbers between them have a prime factor < 73.
> >
> > A001228(26) = 808017424794512875886459904961710757005754368000000000
> > Order of the largest sporadic simple group, the Monster group.
> >
> > A000142(52) =
> > 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000
> > 52! = number of ways to shuffle a deck of cards (without jokers).
> >
> > A011557(100) =
> > 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> > 000
> > 0000000000000000000000000
> > 10^100, a googol.
> >
> > A114440(15095) =
> > 1084464230395358729932151438017082487888975184391965518658152244719602291
> > 501
> > 3498755182422783168249743964253744721999890517357463607557093872677041563
> > 756
> > 6547495970738297545359694233469258248066044412311789418336202690430748419
> > 494
> > 3533374289213175436767660095097341776774737704214452219362042142821400148
> > 498
> > 6836733868054994984612164832174339221137837017699883320992120665521746473
> > 983
> > 1625543921041252648766408996885700710913879052486492812317563281491911243
> > 925
> > 4273788773691427686404063230668247974721311479671409775684127892567107590
> > 504
> > 0965622203570652239329167789023141169583945522024583639602764844086144054
> > 334
> > 4125146667943578032458072195974008992176685068654594958348314899096787905
> > 903
> > 2692273036724661022533504520746569434366728325919336695072199658573011889
> > 440
> > 2624162399404426144503547718692814107138420936301106286615600332822535921
> > 841
> > 7581786664993612723261535530033504534359456197194706824538502279255382972
> > 206
> > 0345252788143549518083651562951378522396595828064708693825881694616491563
> > 006
> > 9310420816697268900748652903486008347345997664784377902556126668240992674
> > 343
> > 6435548435186073490637074087381530918243621501901195914047236424084375593
> > 247
> > 2279709586011392723417973955501965899300525729773575625483069870019644473
> > 846
> > 7685891758469219474040310330071977656807191063602031108704555558860664475
> > 868
> > 4325277244510326965842198914723217408000000000000000000000000000000000000
> > 000
> > 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> > Largest number which, when repeatedly divided by the sum of its digits,
> > eventually reaches 1 (after 440 iterations).
> >
> >
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