[seqfan] Re: Two neighbors sum -- and odd ranks in S

Neil Sloane njasloane at gmail.com
Wed Oct 22 22:52:15 CEST 2014


The differences a(n)-n = A249129(n)-n now form A249161.

Best regards
Neil

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On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Reinhard Zumkeller <
reinhard.zumkeller at gmail.com> wrote:

> As I forgot to stop the search, I found 1 more:
>     abs(a(127730) - 127730) = abs (127739) - 127730) = abs(-9) = 9
>
> MH>  . . .  the somewhat astonishing d(m+2n-1) = -d(m)
> I don't understand ;-)  How did you find it?
> But I got
> *A249129> zipWith (\n m -> d (m + 2*n -1)) [0..]
> [2,0,6,122,922,1994,3986,29618,59234,127730]
> [-1,-1,-2,-3,-4,-5,-6,-7,-8,-9]
>
> this looks funny, but might be not so surprising
>
>
> 2014-10-22 21:56 GMT+02:00 M. F. Hasler <oeis at hasler.fr>:
>
> > >> http://oeis.org/A249129
> >
> > RZ> Concerning Max' conjecture:
> > RZ> Smallest m such that abs(a(m)-m) = n:
> > RZ> [2,0,6,122,922,1994,3986,29618,59234,... ? ? ]
> >
> > Nice, so my previous idea of m*(n) ~ 1000*2^(n-4) (in your notations)
> > was obviously a premature (under)estimation,
> > and the bound on d(n)=a(n)-n is even smaller, confirming the
> > conjecture a(n) ~ n.
> >
> > Remarkable coincidence that the next values are again close to
> > multiples of 10^3 resp.even 10^4 : 30k, 60k....
> > (I resist against the temptation to extrapolate...)
> >
> > Can you also confirm the somewhat astonishing d(m+2n-1) = -d(m)  for
> > these record values?
> >
> > --Maximilian
> >
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