We exclude powers of 10 and numbers of the form 11...111 in which the number of 1's is a power of 10. Then a(n) is the smallest number (not excluded) whose trajectory under iteration of "x -> sum of n-th powers of digits of x" reaches 1.

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We exclude powers of 10 and numbers of the form 11...111 in which the number of 1's is a power of 10. Then a(n) is the smallest number (not excluded) whose trajectory under iteration of "x -> sum of n-th powers of digits of x" reaches 1.