[seqfan] Re: A073853: Four more terms

Charles Greathouse charles.greathouse at case.edu
Wed Dec 9 16:05:28 CET 2009


My code ran for 12 hours, agreed with John's results, and found 6 further terms:
234365843350, 266484243960, 285357252641, 426388494035, 975986718040,
1505420538689

I hope I'm not stepping on any toes by submitting all the terms, of
course crediting Zak and John for theirs?

Charles Greathouse
Analyst/Programmer
Case Western Reserve University

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:43 AM, John W. Layman <layman at math.vt.edu> wrote:
> I have confirmed Zak Seidov's extension (12/03/2009) of A073853 by four
> terms and, in addition, I have obtained two additional terms.
>
>        TERM             ELAPSED TIME (HOURS)
> a(22)=115854652   0.00171444   (Largest term from 2003 extension)
> a(23)=7208007982   0.10886278  (Zak's first new term)
> a(24)=17016737751   0.26690111  (Zak's 2nd)
> a(25)=17589706947   0.27611528  (Zak's 3rd)
> a(26)=24531053552   0.38749556  (Zak's 4th)
> a(27)=33113576855   0.52467444  (my first additional)
> a(28)=80692537585   1.28246944  (my 2nd additional)
> Stopped after 3 hours.
>
> I used the following code in Borland Delphi Pascal:
> program Project2; {$APPTYPE CONSOLE} uses SysUtils; var b1,b2,b3,k:comp;
> begin  b1:=1; b2:=1; k:=2;  repeat b3:=b1+b2; k:=k+1; if b3>=k then
> b3:=b3-k; if b3=0 then write(k:0:0,','); end; b1:=b2; b2:=b3; until 1=2;
> end.
>
>
> zak seidov wrote:
>> A073853: Four more terms
>>
>> http://zak08.livejournal.com/16284.html
>>
>> Zak
>>
>>
>
>
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