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Sep 22, 2010 at 2:56 comment added user6976 @Joseph: Shorey and Tijdeman mention results of Senge and Straus, and C.L.Stewart, at the end of Chapter 12 of their book ``Exponential diophantine equations".
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Sep 20, 2010 at 14:01 comment added user6976 I think somebody erased one of my comments here - the one where I explain a connection with exponential Diophantine equations.
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Sep 20, 2010 at 2:28 comment added user6976 @Gerry: Yes, it is correct according to MathSci. Also you may find in Stewart's paper a double exponential estimate for $f$. I have not been able to find better estimates in the literature although there exist much more recent papers on the subject generalizing Stewart's results, in particular. Calculations suggest a linear bound.
Sep 20, 2010 at 1:07 comment added Gerry Myerson The references in full: C L Stewart, On the representation of an integer in two different bases, J Reine Angew Math 319 (1980) 63-72, MR 81j:10012; H G Senge, E G Straus, PV-numbers and sets of multiplicity, Proceedings of the Washington State University Conference on Number Theory (1971) 55-67, MR 47 #8452.
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Sep 18, 2010 at 16:34 comment added user6976 @Joseph: I changed the references.
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Sep 16, 2010 at 16:52 comment added user6976 By the way, for $a=2$ or $5$, there is an old result of A. Schinzel, which is included in Sierpiński's "250 problems in elementary number theory". If I remember the proof correctly, this result shows that in this case $f$ grows at most linearly.
Sep 16, 2010 at 16:05 comment added Joseph O'Rourke @Mark: Just for my own education, could you identify in which Shorey-Tijdeman paper this is established? They have written quite a few papers together...
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