A077692 - OEIS

A077692

Smallest triangular number which begins with the concatenation of first n natural numbers.

1, 120, 123256, 1234806, 123457041, 12345625545, 12345671807241, 123456781852386, 123456789378124021, 12345678910482682485, 123456789101100044904153, 1234567891011124675039766878

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OFFSET

1,2

LINKS

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..12.

EXAMPLE

a(4) = 12342996, begins with 1234.

MATHEMATICA

t=x={1}; i=4; Do[x=Append[x, n]; While[Take[IntegerDigits[y=i*(i+1)/2], Length[x]]!=x, i++]; AppendTo[t, y], {n, 2, 7}]; t (* Jayanta Basu, May 22 2013 *)

PROG

(PARI) {rT(m) = ceil((sqrt(8*m+1)-1)/2)} {len10(m) = ceil(log(m+1)/log(10))} {T(n) = (n*(n+1))/2} m=0; for(n=1, 20, m=m*10^len10(n)+n; for(k=0, 10^6, t=rT(m*10^k); if(T(t)<(m+1)*10^k, print1(" ", T(t)); break))) (Alekseyev)

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A159735 A157879 A008978 * A322917 A184127 A068296

Adjacent sequences: A077689 A077690 A077691 * A077693 A077694 A077695

KEYWORD

base,nonn

AUTHOR

Amarnath Murthy, Nov 18 2002

EXTENSIONS

Corrected and extended by Max Alekseyev, Feb 15 2005

STATUS

approved