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Martin Gardner - Persistence

Puzzling Asked by James Lynch on June 1, 2021

A number’s persistence is :

  • The number of steps required to reduce it to a single digit by multiplying all its digits to obtain a second number

  • Then multiplying all the digits of that number to obtain a third number, and so on until a one-digit number is obtained.

For example : 77 has a persistence of four because it requires four steps to reduce it to one digit: 77→49→36→18→8.

The smallest number of persistence one is 10

The smallest of persistence two is 25

The smallest of persistence three is 39

The smaller of persistence four is 77

What is the smallest number of persistence five?

2 Answers

Brute forcing with Lua gave me

This is also confirmed by Wikipedia and OEIS:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_of_a_number

http://oeis.org/A003001

Correct answer by warspyking on June 1, 2021

This is a list of the smallest numbers of persistence $n$ with ($1leq nleq11)$.

1 10

2 25

3 39

4 77

5 679 ---> (answer of this problem)

6 6788

7 68889

8 2677889

9 26888999

10 3778888999

11 277777788888899

Answered by I Know The Answer on June 1, 2021

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