[seqfan] Re: permutation of nonnegative integers

Neil Sloane njasloane at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 04:27:13 CEST 2018


Of course they are of interest!  Roughly speaking if
it is worth discussing here it is worth including in the OEIS.

BTW, could you elaborate on "Increment a and b".  What exactly does that
mean?


Best regards
Neil

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On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:47 PM, jnthn stdhr <jstdhr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Begin with a=0 and b=1 and include any of [a, a+b, a*b, b], in that order,
> not already in the sequence.  Increment a and b.  The sequence begins:
>
> 0, 1, 3, 2, 5, 6, 7, 12, 4, 9, 20, 11, 30, 13, 42, 15, 56, 8, 17, 72, 19,
> 90, 10, 21, 110, 23, 132, 25, 156, 27, 182, 14, 29, 210, 31,...
>
> If a(n) is prime and a(n+1) is an even number, we get:
>
> 6, 12, 30, 42, 72, 90, 132, 210, 240, 342, 420, 462, 552, 702, 870, 930,
> 1122, 1260, 1332, 1560, 1722, 1980, 2352, 2550, 2652,...
>
> which appears to be A024701 (a(n) = (-1 + prime(n+1)^2)/4.)
>
> Of interest?
>
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