A348089 Number of 1's required to build n using +, -, *, /, and ^.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 7, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 9, 8, 7, 7, 6, 7, 8, 9, 8, 7, 8, 9, 8, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 10, 11, 12, 11, 10, 11, 10, 9, 8, 9, 10, 9, 9, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10, 11, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 11, 10, 10, 9, 10, 10, 10

Offset: 1

Author

Glen Whitney, Sep 28 2021

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

Here division is taken to be strict integer division, i.e., j/k is defined only if k|j.

Because of the presence of exponentiation, division reduces the value of a(n) as compared with A091334(n) (which allows the same operations except division) far more often than adding division to A091333 does; see A348069.

Examples

			Because 41 = ((1+1+1)^(1+1+1+1) + 1)/(1+1), and there is no expression with these operators and fewer ones that evaluates to 41, a(41) = 10. Note that 41 is the least n such that a(n) < A091334(n).
		

Links

• Glen Whitney, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..3802
• Glen Whitney, Python3.8 program to compute a(n) for some values of n

Crossrefs

Cf. A005245 (variant using + and *), A025280 (using +, *, and ^), A091333 (using +, -, and *), A091334 (using +, -, *, and ^), A348262 (using + and ^).

Cf. A348069.