[seqfan] Re: A question and a sequence connected with A098550

Neil Sloane njasloane at gmail.com
Thu Dec 4 01:17:41 CET 2014


Vladimir,  David Applegate and I also observed that.  There is a slightly
more precise conjecture in "Conjecture 5" in A098550.

Best regards
Neil

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On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Vladimir Shevelev <shevelev at bgu.ac.il>
wrote:

> Let a(n)=A098550(n). Consider sequence b(n)=a(k-1)/a(k) such that a(k)=
> prime(n), n>=3. I get (using table in A098550):
> 3,5,2,3,3,2,3,3,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,2,3,
> 2,2,2,3,2,3,... On this stage I thougt that, except for a(4)=5, it is a
> (2,3)-sequence
> (the last 3 corresponds to n=25, prime(n)=97). But I was surprised that
> further
> up to n=57 I get only 2's (!) How to explain such a phenomena?
> Besides, I have just submitted a Fibonacci-like sequence A249357 which is
> constructed on a rule in the definition of A098550.
>
> Best regards,
> Vladimir
>
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