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Do not confuse with the digital root of n, A010888 (first term that differs is a(19)).

Also the fixed point of the morphism 0 -> {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}, 1 -> {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}, 2 -> {2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11}, etc. - Robert G. Wilson v, Jul 27 2006

For n < 100 equal to (floor(n/10) + n mod 10) = A076314(n). - Hieronymus Fischer, Jun 17 2007

It appears that a(n) is the position of 10*n in the ordered set of numbers obtained by inserting/placing one digit anywhere in the digits of n (except a zero before 1st digit). For instance, for n=2, the resulting set is (12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 42, 52, 62, 72, 82, 92) where 20 is at position 2, so a(2) = 2. - Michel Marcus, Aug 01 2022

Also the total number of beads required to represent n on a Russian abacus (schoty). - P. Christopher Staecker, Mar 31 2023

a(n) / a(2n) <= 5 with equality iff n is in A169964, while a(n) / a(3n) is unbounded, since if n = (10^k + 2)/3, then a(n) = 3*k+1, a(3n) = 3, so a(n) / a(3n) = k + 1/3 -> oo when k->oo (see Diophante link). - Bernard Schott, Apr 29 2023

Also the number of symbols needed to write number n in Egyptian numerals for n < 10^7. - Wojciech Graj, Jul 10 2025

This sequence can be used for filtering certain base-2 related sequences, because it matches only with any such sequence b that can be computed as b(n) = f(A005940(n+1)), where f(n) is any function that depends only on the prime signature of n (some of these are listed under the index entry for "sequences computed from exponents in ...").

Matching in this context means that the sequence a matches with the sequence b iff for all i, j: a(i) = a(j) => b(i) = b(j). In other words, iff the sequence b partitions the natural numbers to the same or coarser equivalence classes (as/than the sequence a) by the distinct values it obtains.

Because the Doudna map n -> A005940(1+n) is an isomorphism from "unary-binary encoding of factorization" (see A156552) to the ordinary representation of the prime factorization of n, it follows that the equivalence classes of this sequence match with any such sequence b, where b(n) is computed from the lengths of 1-runs in the binary representation of n and the order of those 1-runs does not matter. Particularly, this holds for any sequence that is obtained as a "Run Length Transform", i.e., where b(n) = Product S(i), for some function S, where i runs through the lengths of runs of 1's in the binary expansion of n. See for example A227349.

However, this sequence itself is not a run length transform of any sequence (which can be seen for example from the fact that A046523 is not multiplicative).

Furthermore, this matches not only with sequences involving products of S(i), but with any sequence obtained with any commutative function applied cumulatively, like e.g., A000120 (binary weight, obtained in this case as Sum identity(i)), and A069010 (number of runs of 1's in binary representation of n, obtained as Sum signum(i)).

This sequence can be used for filtering certain primorial base related sequences, because it matches only with any such sequence b that can be computed as b(n) = f(A276086(n)), where f(n) is any function that depends only on the prime signature of n (some of these are listed under the index entry for "sequences computed from exponents in ...").

Matching in this context means that the sequence a matches with the sequence b iff for all i, j: a(i) = a(j) => b(i) = b(j). In other words, iff the sequence b partitions the natural numbers to the same or coarser equivalence classes (as/than the sequence a) by the distinct values it obtains.

Any such sequence should match where the result is computed from the nonzero digits (that may also be > 9) in the primorial base representation of n, but does not depend on their order. Some of these are listed on the last line of the Crossrefs section.

a(A051885(n)) = 1. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Oct 09 2015

Ordinal transform of A007953. - Antti Karttunen, May 20 2017

a((10^k-1)/9) = Primorial(k)= A061509((10^k-1)/9). This is a rearrangement of whole numbers. a(m) = a(n) iff m = n. (Unlike A061509, in which a(n) = a(n*10^k).) - Amarnath Murthy and Meenakshi Srikanth (menakan_s(AT)yahoo.com), Jul 14 2003

Part of the previous comment is incorrect: as a set, this sequence consists of numbers n such that the largest exponent appearing in the prime factorization of n is 9. So this cannot be a rearrangement (or permutation) of the natural numbers. - Tom Edgar, Oct 20 2015

This sequence can be used for filtering certain factorial base related sequences, because it matches only with any such sequence b that can be computed as b(n) = f(A276076(n)), where f(n) is any function that depends only on the prime signature of n (some of these are listed under the index entry for "sequences computed from exponents in ...").

Matching in this context means that the sequence a matches with the sequence b iff for all i, j: a(i) = a(j) => b(i) = b(j). In other words, iff the sequence b partitions the natural numbers to the same or coarser equivalence classes (as/than the sequence a) by the distinct values it obtains.

Any such sequence should match where the result is computed from the nonzero digits (that may also be > 9) in the factorial base representation of n, but does not depend on their order. Some of these are listed on the last line of the Crossrefs section.

Note that as A275735 is present in that list it means that the sequences matching to its filter-sequence A278235 form a subset of the sequences matching to this sequence. Also, for A275735 there is a stronger condition that for any i, j: a(i) = a(j) <=> A275735(i) = A275735(j), which if true, would imply that there is an injective function f such that f(A275735(n)) = A278236(n), and indeed, this function seems to be A181821.