[seqfan] Re: A168237 startup and offset

[Allan Wechsler]

Glad to update the b-file; I will try to do that tonight. Somebody still
needs to edit the programs, though.

On Tue, Feb 2, 2021, 12:23 PM Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com> wrote:

> Allan, excellent suggestion. I added a(0)=0. Can you upload a new b-file?
> Best regards
> Neil
>
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> On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 12:32 AM Allan Wechsler <acwacw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > A168237 is the sequence 0,3,3,6,6,9,9,...
> >
> > Its offset is 1.
> >
> > It has a clever formula as definition, which boils down the multiples of
> 3
> > repeated, except for 0 which is only stated once.
> >
> > Can anybody think of a good reason *not* to enhance it by adding A(0) =
> 0,
> > and changing the offset to 0? The clever formula still works, and I think
> > all the comments are still true. (I am slightly unsure of the E.g.f.) The
> > programs would have to be altered slightly, by somebody who knows
> > Mathematica and Magma, but surely the modification would be trivial.
> >
> > All old searches would still match. And I think the resulting sequence
> > would be strictly simpler than what's there now. So that's why I'm asking
> > if I'm missing something.
> >
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