[seqfan] Re: Iteration of k -> sigma(k)-1

[Neil Sloane]

Hugo, that's great!  I've created A292115 for the records (under both our
names, hope that is OK)

Best regards
Neil

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On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Hugo Pfoertner <yae9911 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've found more records of A039655:
> 0, 2, 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 40, 42, 44, 45, 46,
> 47, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58,
> 60, 64, 66, 72, 74
> This is definitely different from A073485.
>
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 8:53 PM, Hugo Pfoertner <yae9911 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Neil, all,
> >
> > for A039655 an a-file of 1 million terms is available.
> >
> > The records of A039655 I've computed so far are
> > 0, 2, 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 40, 42, 44, 45,
> 46,
> > 47, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58,
> >
> > A corresponding extension of A292114 is submitted.
> >
> > Hugo Pfoertner
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Seq Fans,
> >> According to Richard Guy, Erdos conjectured that the trajectory of n
> under
> >> that map always reaches a prime. A039654 gives the prime reached, or -1
> (I
> >> changed the escape value to make it consistent with similar sequences),
> >> and A039655 gives no. of steps.
> >> I just created A292112 and -3 for the records in A039654. They need
> >> b-files.
> >> The record values in A039655 appear to match A073485, but surely that is
> >> just a coincidence, so could someone please compute more terms? The
> >> positions of the records in A039655 is the new A292114.
> >>
> >> In other words, the records in the present b-file for A039655 are [0, 2,
> >> 5,
> >> 6, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17] - how does this continue?
> >> The positions of the records are [2, 4, 9, 121, 301, 441, 468, 3171,
> 8373]
> >> which is now A292114. How does this continue, and what ARE these
> numbers?
> >>
> >> A039655 could use a bigger b-file, or an a-file with 100,000 or more
> >> terms.
> >>
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