[seqfan] Re: The Fibonacci word over the nonneg integers

Neil Sloane njasloane at gmail.com
Sat Jul 1 01:20:03 CEST 2017


Kerry, Can you please submit your tribonacci version?
It should certainly be in the OEIS.
(And add a cross-reference to it in A104324 so
people can find it)

Best regards
Neil

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On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Kerry Mitchell <lkmitch at gmail.com> wrote:

> There's a similar sequence for the Tribonacci word:
>
> Trajectory of 0 under the map x -> x,x+1,x+2 if x mod 3 = 0;
> x -> x+1 if x mod 3 = 1; x -> x+1 if x mod 3 = 2.
>
> It begins:
>
> 0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 3, 4, 5, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 3, 4, 5,
> 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 8, etc.
>
> The number of terms in each iteration corresponds to the tribonacci
> sequence (beginning with 1, 1, 1):
>
>    - 1 term: 0
>    - 3 terms: 0 1 2
>    - 5 terms: 0 1 2 2 3
>    - 9 terms: 0 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 5
>    - 17 terms: 0 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 3 4 5 3 4 5 5 6
>
> When looked at this way, each subsequent iteration is the previous one
> copied, then the pre-pre-previous iteration with each term incremented by
> 3, then the pre-previous iteration, with each term incremented by 3.
>
> Kerry
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Interesting new paper in the Electronic J Combinatorics:
> >
> > Jiemeng Zhang, Zhixiong Wen, Wen Wu, Some Properties of the Fibonacci
> > Sequence on an Infinite Alphabet, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics,
> > 24(2) (2017), #P2.52.
> >
> > http://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/
> view/v24i2p52/pdf
> >
> > Trajectory of 0 under the map x -> x,x+1 if x is even, x -> x+1 if x is
> > odd, starting at 0:
> >
> > 0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 2, 3, ...
> >
> > The sequence was in the OEIS already but with a different definition:
> > A104324
> >
> > It has many interesting properties.
> >
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