A "doublely-recursive" sequence
Leroy Quet
qqquet at mindspring.com
Tue Aug 5 01:55:18 CEST 2003
>I guess our numbers must be correct then. I'd bet that the sequence
>is infinite but grows very slowly. If you find anymore numbers you should
>add them to the sequence I submitted yesterday to the EIS.
>
>There is nothing special about 1. One could just as well find the indices
>where the original sequence was 2 or 4 or any number in the sequence.
>
>I seem to have lost my original data up to 10^5. But I redid it up to 10^4
>and found that the most frequently occuring number in Leroy's original
>sequence up to 10^4 is 2996 which occurs 37 times. :-)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Edwin
They main significance of 1, aside from it simply being the first
positive integer, is that a(m) = 1 only when a(m-1) is divisible by m (or
when m=0, of course).
2996? hmmm...
;)
Thanks,
Leroy Quet
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