22 Feb
2005
22 Feb
'05
7:18 a.m.
Because my results disagreed with Chuck Seggelin's, I rechecked my program. There was a subtle bug in the termination code that caused me to drop the last three elements. When fixed, my sequence coincides with Seggelin's. The finity argument I gave before is basically sound. At a(2024) = 8945, the largest digit count is 894 5's. There are no more elements up to 8950. At 8950 and beyond, the "count" part of the number exceeds 894, and so cannot be in the sequence. Ergo the sequence is finite, with largest element a(2024) = 8945. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.2.0 - Release Date: 2/21/2005