A number is called an economical number if the number of digits in the prime factorization of (including powers) uses fewer digits than the number of digits in . The first few economical numbers are 125, 128, 243, 256, 343, 512, 625, 729, ... (Sloane's A046759). Pinch shows that, under a plausible hypothesis related to the twin prime conjecture, there are arbitrarily long sequences of consecutive economical numbers, and exhibits such a sequence of length nine starting at 1034429177995381247.

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