[seqfan] Re: A133579

[Neil Sloane]

First, about A133580: the definition was correct, and the terms were
correct, but the offset should have been 0.  I changed the offset and added
some example lines to clarify the situation.

The b-file is now wrong, unfortunately (Harvey, could you correct it?), and
probably the programs also need correcting.

Following Franklin's hint, this suggests that the correct
definition of A133579 should be:

a(0)=a(1)=1; for n>1, a(n) = 3*a(n-1)  if a(n-1) and n are coprime,
otherwise a(n) = a(n-1)/gcd(a(n-1),n).

This almost matches the terms, but there is a mistake at
a(6), I believe, - as Harvey noticed - so it
needs to be recomputed. (a(6) should be 1 not 9). The offset is also wrong,
it should be 0, and I will fix that.

Best regards
Neil

Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation.
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On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Frank Adams-Watters <franktaw at netscape.net>
wrote:

> The definition is clearly wrong, since gcd(n,a(n-1)) always divides a(n-1).
>
> A133580 seems to be related, and may provide a clue. (BTW, the offset for
> A133580 is wrong; from the definition it should be 0.)
>
> Franklin T. Adams-Watters
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harvey P. Dale <hpd at hpdale.org>
> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list <seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>
> Sent: Fri, Feb 13, 2015 6:59 pm
> Subject: [seqfan] A133579
>
>
>         I cannot figure out how to generate the terms of the above
> sequence from its
> definition.
>         Best,
>         Harvey
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