[seqfan] Re: Fractal sequence A087088

[Neil Sloane]

Changing the offset to 1 looks like a good idea!

I made some grammatical improvements.

Unless someone disagrees, I would say go ahead and change the offset

Best regards
Neil

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On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:27 AM Peter Munn <techsubs at pearceneptune.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hello seqfans,
>
> A087088 claims to be "the simplest nontrivial sequence" such that removing
> every "1" gives the same result as adding 1 to every term. Ruler
> sequences, such as A001511, share this property, so does anyone have a
> clear idea how "simplest nontrivial" might be defined?
>
> And can anyone shed light on the reason its offset is 3? [1]
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Peter
>
> [1] Apart from the b-file, the rest of the sequence is written as though
> the offset is 1 (so formulas are strictly incorrect). The relationship to
> A244040 contributed by Edgar and Van Alstine is neatest with offset 1 or
> offset 0. A relationship I discovered recently (comment in
> https://oeis.org/A024629) is clearly neatest if the offset is 1, whilst my
> work on symmetry (https://oeis.org/history/view?seq=A087088&v=25) and with
> A335933 suggests an OEIS-incompatible offset of 1.5 .
>
> As we are only now starting to refer from other sequences to terms of
> A087088, it seems a good time to settle on a good offset. Unless anyone
> knows a good reason for keeping it as 3, offset 1 seems better.
>
>
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