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

[Neil Sloane]

Just to clean up this thread, A104234 has been edited, and Kerry's sequence
has been added as A288577.


Best regards
Neil

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On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 7:00 AM, jean-paul allouche <
jean-paul.allouche at imj-prg.fr> wrote:

> Hi
>
> We should probably say: limit under iteration, starting from 0, of the
> morphism x --> x, x+1
> for even x and x --> x+1 for odd x , where the morphism is defined on the
> set of finite sequences
> of non-negative integers equipped with concatenation. Should we?
>
> best
> jp
>
> Le 30/06/17 à 23:55, David Seal a écrit :
>
>> As a minor wording point about:
>>
>> 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, ...
>>>
>> I had a bit of trouble understanding what was intended - the map
>> described takes 0 to 0,1, so surely each 'point' on the trajectory contains
>> a 0, so why does the sequence contain only one 0 and not infinitely many?
>>
>> I have sorted out the answer to that question, but I think I would
>> describe the sequence as something like the limit of the trajectory rather
>> than the trajectory. I.e. the trajectory is the sequence of finite integer
>> sequences:
>>
>>     0
>> -> 0,1
>> -> 0,1,2
>> -> 0,1,2,2,3
>> -> 0,1,2,2,3,2,3,4
>> -> 0,1,2,2,3,2,3,4,2,3,4,4,5
>> -> 0,1,2,2,3,2,3,4,2,3,4,4,5,2,3,4,4,5,4,5,6
>> -> ...
>>
>> and the infinite sequence is in some sense what that trajectory converges
>> to.
>>
>> Looking at the finite sequences in that trajectory, and in particular how
>> many times each digit appeared in each, was entertaining - it gave me a
>> sort of 'diagonal sums' correspondence between the Fibonacci numbers and
>> Pascal's triangle that was new to me. Probably not actually new - they're
>> very well-studied mathematical constructs! - but quite fun:
>>
>>                   1 = 1
>>
>>                 1 + 1 = 3
>>                +
>>               1   2 + 1 = 8
>>                  +
>>             1 + 3   3 + 1 = 21
>>            +       +
>>           1   4 + 6   4 + 1 = 55
>>              +       +
>>         1 + 5   10+10
>>        +       +
>>       1   6 +15
>>          +
>>     1 + 7
>>    +
>>   1
>>
>> and at the alternate positions:
>>
>>                   1 = 2
>>                  +
>>                 1   1 = 5
>>                    +
>>               1 + 2   1 = 13
>>              +       +
>>             1   3 + 3   1 = 34
>>                +       +
>>           1 + 4   6 + 4
>>          +       +
>>         1   5 +10
>>            +
>>       1 + 6
>>      +
>>     1
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> David
>>
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