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in thread Can It Be Written In Base X With Only 1s And 0s

In order to find the next element I consulted The on-line encyclopedia of integer sequences. Funnily enough they only have the sequence up to 82000. There is a reference to this paper where the author claims that the next number would be at least 10**21 according to his experiments.

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Re^3: Can It Be Written In Base X With Only 1s And 0s
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 16, 2015 at 07:19 UTC

    I can atest to it being greater than 95367431640625.

    Even assuming that my "sum of single powers" hypothesis is correct; I think it will take more cpu power than I'm prepared to expend to look much beyond that.


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Re^3: Can It Be Written In Base X With Only 1s And 0s
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 16, 2015 at 12:46 UTC
    Actually, it says at least 102184, as I previously mentioned.