[seqfan] Re: Resurrect A090566?

Neil Sloane njasloane at gmail.com
Sat Nov 21 19:17:08 CET 2015


David, Thanks for that message. I have undeaded A090566 and extended and
corrected it with your terms. And I added cross-refs between them. Nice
work!

Best regards
Neil

Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation.
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On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 12:00 AM, David Wilson <davidwwilson at comcast.net>
wrote:

> A082209 is defined as:
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> a(1) = 1, a(n+1) = smallest k with concat(a(n), k) square.
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> A090566 was deaded as an erroneous version of A082209. But I could argue
> that A090566 was meant to be a different sequence, namely:
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> a(1) = 1, a(n+1) = smallest k > a(n) with concat(a(n), k) square.
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> Observe that A090566 in increasing and that concatenating adjacent elements
> of A090566 gives square numbers. This supports my interpretation.
>
> By this new definition, A090566 is still incorrect starting at a(5),
> perhaps
> due to computation error. Corrected, I believe it begins
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> 1,6,25,281,961,6201,59409,187600,730641,4429444,28600025,85336064
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> This sequence does not occur elsewhere in the OEIS, so I propose to
> resurrect A090566 with this new definition (or create a new sequence if
> this
> is unacceptable).
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> I computed the above elements using a brute force C++ program, but with the
> appropriate power tools, e.g. Mma, and a little cleverness, I think this
> sequence could be generated quite efficiently. Anyone up to verifying and
> extending my values?
>
>
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