[seqfan] Re: Interesting discovery by Dan Preston concerning a Recaman-like sequence

[Neil Sloane]

> It looks like that can also land you on a number that has been
landed on before - am I correct to assume that's fine, we just accept the
repeat and continue in that case?

Yes, that is correct!
Best regards
Neil

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On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 8:07 AM <hv at crypt.org> wrote:

> Just to clarify the definition of A228474, it states "... if the number
> landed on has been landed on before, move a distance of k away from zero
> instead". It looks like that can also land you on a number that has been
> landed on before - am I correct to assume that's fine, we just accept the
> repeat and continue in that case?
>
> I have some ideas about for algorithms to cope with the difficult cases,
> which I'm just starting to implement.
>
> Hugo
>
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