Wednesday, September 21, 2016

13-digit 2-balanced factorization integers

When I introduced my k-balanced factorizations last month, I noted that there were over 13000 of the 2-balanced variety. My effort to chart them all is proceeding slowly, with a couple of months yet to go before I reach 10^12. In the meantime I decided to have a try at the ones greater than 10^12. This can be accomplished by brute-forcing all possible ways of creating a valid factorization using seven or fewer digits. I generated no solutions for one to four digits. For five digits, one gets the 4 solutions of the known 1-balanced factorizations (that started it all):

        26487 = 3^5 * 109
        28651 = 7 * 4093
        61054 = 2 * 7^3 * 89
        65821 = 7 * 9403

For six digits, there are again no solutions. For seven digits, there are 4 solutions:

1495476527089 = 83^2 * 601^3
3392164558027 = 7^9 * 84061
8789650571264 = 2^31 * 4093
9418623046875 = 3^9 * 5^10 * 7^2

These then are (necessarily) the largest 2-balanced factorization integers! I'm going to run the program again for eight digits. This will generate all 12-digit 2-balanced factorization integers and may do so (I'm hoping) in less time than my exhaustive forward search. In addition, there's a chance that it may find a k > 2 solution, since nothing in the reverse search precludes it.

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