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A003278 a(n)-1 in ternary = n-1 in binary; also: a(1) = 1, a(2) = 2, a(n) is smallest number k which avoids any 3-term arithmetic progression in a(1), a(2), ..., a(n-1), k.
(Formerly M0975)
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1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 13, 14, 28, 29, 31, 32, 37, 38, 40, 41, 82, 83, 85, 86, 91, 92, 94, 95, 109, 110, 112, 113, 118, 119, 121, 122, 244, 245, 247, 248, 253, 254, 256, 257, 271, 272, 274, 275, 280, 281, 283, 284, 325, 326, 328, 329, 334, 335, 337, 338, 352, 353 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENTS

That is, there are no three elements A, B and C such that B - A = C - B.

Difference sequence related to Gray code bit sequence (A001511). The difference patterns follows a similar repeating pattern (ABACABADABACABAE...), but each new value is the sum of the previous values, rather than simply 1 more than the maximum of the previous values. - Hal Burch (hburch(AT)cs.cmu.edu), Jan 12 2004

Sums of distinct powers of 3, translated by 1.

Positions of 0 in A189820; complement of A189822. [From Clark Kimberling, May 26 2011]

REFERENCES

J.-P. Allouche and J. Shallit, The ring of k-regular sequences, Theoretical Computer Sci., 98 (1992), 163-197.

P. Erdos and P. Turan, On some sequences of integers, J. London Math. Soc., 11 (1936), 261-264.

Gerver, Joseph; Propp, James; Simpson, Jamie; Greedily partitioning the natural numbers into sets free of arithmetic progressions. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 102 (1988), no. 3, 765-772.

R. K. Guy, Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, E10.

Iacobescu, F. 'Smarandache Partition Type and Other Sequences.' Bull. Pure Appl. Sci. 16E, 237-240, 1997.

H. Ibstedt, A Few Smarandache Sequences, Smarandache Notions Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1-2-3, 1997, 170-183.

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

F. Smarandache, Sequences of Numbers Involved in Unsolved Problems, Hexis, Phoenix, 2006.

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..1024

J.-P. Allouche and J. Shallit, The ring of k-regular sequences, Theoretical Computer Sci., 98 (1992), 163-197.

M. L. Perez et al., eds., Smarandache Notions Journal

F. Smarandache, Sequences of Numbers Involved in Unsolved Problems.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Smarandache Sequences

FORMULA

a(2k + 1) = a(2k) + 1, a(2^k + 1) = 2*a(2^k).

a(n) = b(n+1) with b(0)=1, b(2n)=3b(n)-2, b(2n+1)=3b(n)-1. - Ralf Stephan (ralf(AT)ark.in-berlin.de), Aug 23 2003

G.f. 1/(1-x)^2 + sum(3^(k-1)*x^(2^k)/((1-x^(2^k))*(1-x)),k=1..infinity). - Ralf Stephan (ralf(AT)ark.in-berlin.de), Sep 10 2003, corrected by Robert Israel, May 25 2011

MATHEMATICA

(* first do *) Needs["DiscreteMath`Combinatorica`"]; (* then *) Take[ Sort[ Plus @@@ Subsets[ Table[3^n, {n, 0, 6}]]] + 1, 58] (from Robert G. Wilson v Oct 23 2004)

(* Next program: A003278 from A189820, from Clark Kimberling, May 26 2011 *)

a[1] = 0; h = 180;

Table[a[3 k - 2] = a[k], {k, 1, h}];

Table[a[3 k - 1] = a[k], {k, 1, h}];

Table[a[3 k] = 1, {k, 1, h}];

Table[a[n], {n, 1, h}]   (*A189820*)

Flatten[Position[%, 0]]  (*A003278*)

Flatten[Position[%%, 1]] (*A189822*)

PROG

(Perl) $nxt = 1; @list = (); for ($cnt = 0; $cnt < 1500; $cnt++) { while (exists $legal{$nxt}) { $nxt++; } print "$nxt "; last if ($nxt >= 1000000); for ($i = 0; $i <= $#list; $i++) { $t = 2*$nxt - $list[$i]; $legal{$t} = -1; } $cnt++; push @list, $nxt; $nxt++; } # Hal Burch

CROSSREFS

Equals 1 + A005836. Cf. A001511, A098871.

Row 0 of array in A093682.

Sequence in context: A173817 A198383 A156799 * A004792 A167795 A138048

Adjacent sequences:  A003275 A003276 A003277 * A003279 A003280 A003281

KEYWORD

nonn,nice,easy

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), R. P. Stanley

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