Problem 53990. Classify product/digit-sum sequences

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<div style = "text-align: start; line-height: 20.4333px; min-height: 0px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, monospace; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; "><div style="block-size: 186px; display: block; min-width: 0px; padding-block-start: 0px; padding-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 407.5px 93px; transform-origin: 407.5px 93px; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="block-size: 63px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-block-end: 9px; margin-block-start: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-inline-end: 10px; margin-inline-start: 4px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 2px; perspective-origin: 384.5px 31.5px; text-align: left; transform-origin: 384.5px 31.5px; white-space: pre-wrap; margin-left: 4px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-right: 10px; "><a target='_blank' href = "https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/53120"><span style=""><span style="text-decoration-line: underline; ">Cody Problem 53120</span></span></a><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 309.642px 7.66667px; transform-origin: 309.642px 7.66667px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style=""> involved a sequence in which a term is computed by multiplying the previous two terms and adding the digits of the product. In that problem the first two terms of the sequence were 1 and 2. The next four terms were 2, 4, 8, and 5.</span></span></div><div style="block-size: 63px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-block-end: 9px; margin-block-start: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-inline-end: 10px; margin-inline-start: 4px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 2px; perspective-origin: 384.5px 31.5px; text-align: left; transform-origin: 384.5px 31.5px; white-space: pre-wrap; margin-left: 4px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-right: 10px; "><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 383.883px 7.66667px; transform-origin: 383.883px 7.66667px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style="">What happens if the first two terms are changed? It turns out that these product/digit-sum sequences can be sorted into five groups. For reasons that will likely be apparent to those who solved </span></span><a target='_blank' href = "https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/53120"><span style=""><span style="text-decoration-line: underline; ">Cody Problem 53120</span></span></a><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 103.075px 7.66667px; transform-origin: 103.075px 7.66667px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style="">, the sequence there (and others like it) is assigned the number 163. The other four types of sequence are assigned the numbers 1, 9, 26, and 62. </span></span></div><div style="block-size: 42px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-block-end: 9px; margin-block-start: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-inline-end: 10px; margin-inline-start: 4px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 2px; perspective-origin: 384.5px 21px; text-align: left; transform-origin: 384.5px 21px; white-space: pre-wrap; margin-left: 4px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-right: 10px; "><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 262.017px 7.66667px; transform-origin: 262.017px 7.66667px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style="">Write a function to classify the product/digit-sum sequences given the first two terms </span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;STIXGeneral&quot;, &quot;STIXGeneral-webfont&quot;, serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">a</span><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 15.5583px 7.66667px; transform-origin: 15.5583px 7.66667px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style=""> and </span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;STIXGeneral&quot;, &quot;STIXGeneral-webfont&quot;, serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">b</span><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 93.35px 7.66667px; transform-origin: 93.35px 7.66667px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style="">. To encourage solvers to find the pattern, loops are banned, and to allow for large inputs, </span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;STIXGeneral&quot;, &quot;STIXGeneral-webfont&quot;, serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">a</span><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 15.5583px 7.66667px; transform-origin: 15.5583px 7.66667px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style=""> and </span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;STIXGeneral&quot;, &quot;STIXGeneral-webfont&quot;, serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">b</span><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 77.4px 7.66667px; transform-origin: 77.4px 7.66667px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style=""> are specified as strings. </span></span></div></div></div>

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Rafael S.T. Vieira on 26 Nov 2022

I didn't find a key, but a predominance between the five lists: 9 is the most powerful. 4 or 5 tests are enough, but some have made matrices with more than 25 possible combinations.

Rafael S.T. Vieira on 26 Nov 2022

Tip FYI: If the sum of the digits of a number is divisible by 3, then the number is also divisible by 3, and the same rule exists for 9. All numbers have similar laws, it seems. A number divisible by 5 ends with 0 or 5, and so on...

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