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A005658 If n appears so do 2n, 3n+2, 6n+3.
(Formerly M0969)
2
1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 36, 40, 44, 47, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 60, 62, 63, 64, 66, 68, 72, 80, 83, 86, 87, 88, 89, 92, 93, 94, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 104, 105, 106, 108, 110, 111, 112, 114, 116, 120, 122, 123 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENTS

David Klarner and coauthors studied several sequences of this type. Some of the references here apply generally to this class of sequences.

REFERENCES

R. K. Guy, Don't try to solve these problems, Amer. Math. Monthly, 90 (1983), 35-41.

Guy, R. K., Klarner-Rado Sequences. Section E36 in Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, p. 237, 1994.

Hoffman, D. G. and Klarner, D. A. Sets of integers closed under affine operators-the finite basis theorem. Pacific J. Math. 83 (1979), no. 1, 135-144.

Hoffman, D. G. and Klarner, D. A. Sets of integers closed under affine operators-the closure of finite sets. Pacific J. Math. 78 (1978), no. 2, 337-344.

Klarner, David A., m-Recognizability of sets closed under certain affine functions. Discrete Appl. Math. 21 (1988), no. 3, 207-214.

Klarner, David A. and Post, Karel Some fascinating integer sequences. A collection of contributions in honour of Jack van Lint. Discrete Math. 106/107 (1992), 303-309.

Klarner, D. A. and Rado, R. Arithmetic properties of certain recursively defined sets. Pacific J. Math. 53 (1974), 445-463.

J. C. Lagarias, ed., The Ultimate Challenge: The 3x+1 Problem, Amer. Math. Soc., 2010. See pp. 6, 280.

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

LINKS

R. J. Mathar, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..15889

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics.

Index entries for sequences related to 3x+1 (or Collatz) problem

MAPLE

ina:= proc(n) evalb(n=1) end:

a:= proc(n) option remember; local k, t;

      if n=1 then 1

    else for k from a(n-1)+1 while not

           (irem(k, 2, 't')=0 and ina(t) or

            irem(k, 3, 't')=2 and ina(t) or

            irem(k, 6, 't')=3 and ina(t) )

         do od: ina(k):= true; k

      fi

    end:

seq (a(n), n=1..80);  # Alois P. Heinz, Mar 16 2011

MATHEMATICA

s={1}; Do[a=s[[n]]; s=Union[s, {2a, 3a+2, 6a+3}], {n, 1000}]; s (* Zak Seidov Mar 15 2011 *)

PROG

(C++)

#include <stdio.h>

#include <iostream>

#include <set>

using namespace std ;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])

{ const int anmax= 40000 ; set<int> a ; a.insert(1) ; for(int i=0; i< anmax ; i++) { if( a.count(i) ) { if( 2*i<=anmax) a.insert(2*i) ; if( 3*i+2 <= anmax) a.insert(3*i+2) ; if( 6*i+3 <= anmax) a.insert(6*i+3) ; } } int n=1 ; for(int i=0; i < anmax; i++) { if( a.count(i) ) { cout << n << " " << i << endl ; n++ ; } } return 0 ; }

- R. J. Mathar (mathar(AT)strw.leidenuniv.nl), Aug 20 2006

(Haskell)

import Data.Set (Set, fromList, insert, deleteFindMin)

a005658 n = a005658_list !! (n-1)

a005658_list = klarner $ fromList [1, 2] where

   klarner :: Set Integer -> [Integer]

   klarner s = m : (klarner $

                    insert (2*m) $ insert (3*m+2) $ insert (6*m+3) s')

      where (m, s') = deleteFindMin s

-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 14 2011

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002977, A185661.

Sequence in context: A069011 A101185 A045702 * A166021 A003714 A010402

Adjacent sequences:  A005655 A005656 A005657 * A005659 A005660 A005661

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Larry Reeves (larryr(AT)acm.org), Oct 16 2000

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