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I have an ordinal list that I am trying to represent mathematically. The list is as follows:

10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000, 10000, 20000, 30000, 40000, 50000, 60000, 70000, 80000, 90000, 100000.

So basically, 100, 1000 and 10000 are multiplied by 10. I am visualising a chunk of data and I need an easy way to communicate the distribution without resorting to log. I'd like to formalise this, however.

cheers all,

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    You could consider generating functions. They would help you get a formula for the $n$th item in the list, and give a mathematical structure that contains the list.2011-04-13

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See OEIS sequence A037124: Numbers that contain only one nonzero digit.

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    @slotishtype: For your list (containing 37 terms) use the above formula for $n=9,10,\ldots,45$.2011-04-13
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If the list stops at $100,000$, you have represented it by listing it. You could say something like $k10^n$ where $k \in \{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9\}$ and $1 \le n \le 4$, but that is pretty complicated and leaves off the last term.

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    Than$k$s Ross...I was just looking for some short hand notation but I am probably over complicating the issue...2011-04-13