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Posted on 2024-08-20
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Consider the sequence 1, 7, 8, 49, 50, 56, 57, 343, ... which consists of sums of distinct powers of 7, that is, 7
0
, 7
1
, 7
0
+7
1
, 7
2
, ... in increasing order. At what position will 16856 occur in this sequence?
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Danish Ahmed Khan
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It seems easier to first convert 16856 to base 7.
16856 = 100100 (base 7)
100100 (base 2) = 36, so 36th position.
Posted by
Steve Herman
on 2024-08-20 12:41:12
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