[seqfan] Re: A102421; Start with 2n+1, multiply by 3 and add 1 and divide out any power of 2; ....

Neil Sloane njasloane at gmail.com
Sun Aug 23 20:03:10 CEST 2020


Since I created that sequence, let me defend it.

Here is Maple:

f:=proc(n) local j; j:=3*n+1; while j mod 2 = 0 do j:=j/2; od: j:=3*j-1;
while j mod 2 = 0 do j:=j/2; od: j; end;

and that generates the sequence, look:

 [seq(f(2*n+1),n=0..60)];

[1, 7, 1, 1, 5, 25, 7, 17, 19, 43, 1, 13, 7, 61, 1, 35, 37, 79, 5, 11, 23,
97,

    25, 53, 55, 115, 7, 31, 1, 133, 17, 71, 73, 151, 19, 5, 41, 169, 43, 89,

    91, 187, 1, 49, 25, 205, 13, 107, 109, 223, 7, 29, 59, 241, 61, 125,
127,

    259, 1, 67, 17]

Looks OK to me.



Best regards
Neil

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On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 9:57 AM David Corneth <davidacorneth at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can I get an extra pair of eyes over at A102421? It seems data was
> inconsistent with a comment even before I got there.
> It describes a function that, well, takes a number and then returns another
> number.
> Like after some magic, 17 becomes 19... according to a comment. But data
> says 17 becomes 19.
> Then 19 becomes 43.
>
> Upon inspection,
> a(8) = a((17 - 1)/2) = 19.
> a(9) = a((19 - 1)/2) = 43
>
> Could that be it?
> There's no reference to (n-1)/2 so that'd be guessing. Or should that be
> read from take 2n+1 in name?
> One could say if x = 2n + 1 then n = (x-1)/2 but to me that doesn't follow
> from the name.
>
> Best,
> David
>
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