Economical numbers

arXivmath/9802046MaRDI QIDQ6500809FDOQ6500809

Abstract: A number

n

is said to be economical if the prime power factorisation of

n

can be written with no more digits than

n

itself. We show that under a plausible hypothesis, related to the twin prime conjecture, there are arbitrarily long sequences of consecutive economial numbers, and exhibit such a sequence of length 9.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic functions; related numbers; inversion formulas (11A25) Radix representation; digital problems (11A63) Factorization; primality (11A51)

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