Number of steps to reach 0 under "k->max product of two numbers whose concatenation is k".

Terms

a(0) =0a(1) =1a(2) =1a(3) =1a(4) =1a(5) =1a(6) =1a(7) =1a(8) =1a(9) =1a(10) =1a(11) =2a(12) =2a(13) =2a(14) =2a(15) =2a(16) =2a(17) =2a(18) =2a(19) =2a(20) =1a(21) =2a(22) =2a(23) =2a(24) =2a(25) =2a(26) =3a(27) =3a(28) =3a(29) =3