[seqfan] Re: A022937 Hofstadter start=5 missing sample value

Heinz, Alois alois.heinz at hs-heilbronn.de
Sun Feb 19 00:18:30 CET 2012


Correct.  The sequence has an error.  You can see it in the graph also.

Alois

Am 18.02.2012 22:32, schrieb Kevin Ryde:
> In A022937 which is Douglas Hofstadter's Figure/Space style sequence
> starting from 5, I think there may be a value missing from the samples
> shown.  It has
>
>      1091, 1141, 1244, 1298, 1353,
>          +50   +103  +54   +55
>
> which I think is missing 1192
>
>                  insert
>                  v
>      1091, 1141, 1192, 1244, 1298, 1353
>          +50   +51   +52   +54   +55
>
> Difference +53 is excluded because 53 occurs earlier in the sequence.
> Does that sound right?  If I'm not mistaken the first differences are
> supposed to be increasing, so +103 followed by +54 would not be right.




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