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?
Brute forcing with Lua gave me
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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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