A004233 - OEIS

A004233

a(n) = ceiling(log(n)).

0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5

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OFFSET

1,3

COMMENTS

Does not satisfy Benford's law [Whyman et al., 2016]. - N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 12 2017

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000

G. Whyman, N. Ohtori, E. Shulzinger, and Ed. Bormashenko, Revisiting the Benford law: When the Benford-like distribution of leading digits in sets of numerical data is expectable?, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 461 (2016), 595-601.

Index entries for sequences related to Benford's law

MATHEMATICA

Ceiling[Log[Range[100]]] (* Paolo Xausa, Jun 28 2024 *)

PROG

(Haskell)

a004233 = ceiling . log . fromIntegral -- Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 17 2015

(PARI) a(n)=ceil(log(n)) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Apr 29 2015

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000193, A000195, A000523.

Sequence in context: A125269 A077430 A105513 * A363832 A130259 A068549

Adjacent sequences: A004230 A004231 A004232 * A004234 A004235 A004236

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane

STATUS

approved