[seqfan] Re: A293355

Neil Sloane njasloane at gmail.com
Sun Oct 8 13:07:24 CEST 2017


well, to save time I uploaded the plots, see A127661 and A293355.

Best regards
Neil

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On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 2:31 AM, Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com> wrote:

> 6216 certainly looks like it is headed straight to outer space, no
> hesitation at all.  Remarkable.
>
> How big is that file?  Can you upload it as an attachment to A293355/
>
> Or I can do it if it is over the limit for a normal upload.  But if that
> is the case, could you get it started by creating the link and attempting
> to upload the png file?  Let me know how it goes.
>
> Best regards
> Neil
>
> Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation.
> 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA.
> Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.
> Phone: 732 828 6098 <(732)%20828-6098>; home page: http://NeilSloane.com
> Email: njasloane at gmail.com
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Hans Havermann <gladhobo at bell.net> wrote:
>
>> https://oeis.org/A293355
>>
>> Infinitary aliquot sequence starting at 6216. Without really
>> understanding the details of infinitary aliquot sequences, I was
>> nevertheless charting the unknown lengths (less than 10000) of A127661
>> using the Mathematica code provided therein. I eventually determined that
>> there were 12 primary unknowns with an additional 349 merging into them. I
>> graphed those 12 evolutions here:
>>
>> http://chesswanks.com/num/a127661(12unknowns).png
>>
>> You may have to click on it to see the graphs full size. The 7th one down
>> is 6216. You can understand why I wanted to submit the sequence. Unlike the
>> other 11 it appears that it might be provably infinite! Starting at a(22)
>> the terms to a(250) are monotonically increasing and divisible by 120.
>> Perhaps someone here can figure this out.
>>
>>
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